La teoría económica y la evidencia empírica disponible apoyan la tesis de que el direccionamiento del gasto público hacia bienes de naturaleza privada, en detrimento del gasto en bienes públicos, inhibe el desempeño del sector agrícola. Este trabajo presenta un análisis de la influencia...

Over time, the CAP has had a very important role for the economic objectives of the EU. It is the institutional policy with the highest share of the community budget. This article examines the evolution of the CAP since the nineties, with the aims of reducing surpluses, developing an...

Economic theory and econometric evidence support the thesis that the displacement of government expenditures on public goods by subsidies to private goods inhibits the performance of the farm sector. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the mix of expenditures related to...

Brand valuation has taken great relevance within the companies. The reason is that it is constituted like an attribute more of the company. There is one characteristic that emphasizes over the rest: the difficulty to apply to objective criteria for its economic valuation. Although, it is a fact...

Agricultural insurances based on a climate index are an innovative form of insurance that represent a viable alternative for low-income countries. Such insurances are tied to a climatic index (e.g. the level of precipitation, temperature, humidity or crop yield) rather than an actual loss. This...

This book represents the first comprehensive effort to analyze informal finance in Peru. We gathered data from a survey designed to capture formal and non-formal credit and savings transactions. We surveyed rural households, urban micro entrepreneurs, and wholesalers from three regions: Junin,...

El Componente de Atención a los Desastres Naturales, “CADENA”, es un programa del Gobierno de México que acaba de cumplir 10 años de operación. A diferencia de otros fondos para la atención a desastres naturales, es administrado y supervisado por la cabeza ejecutiva del sector, en este...