We propose a systemic approach to MDG assessment, which aims at exploiting the existence of interrelations and sinergies among indicators via the integration of a macro scenarios model and a set of probabilistic microeconometric models. Given this integrated system and an explicit loss function...

The National Budget has a key role as an instrument of funds allocation for different social priorities and resources redistribution with localized impact in the provinces. The main objective of Social Public Expenditure (GPS) is to promote the access of most vulnerable social groups to quality...

The recent implementation of the Asignación Universal por Hijo para Protección Social in Argentina, which aim is to fight against short term poverty and promote investment in human capital, has generated a broad debate in society. This paper analyzes the impact of this program on poverty and...

This paper aims to evaluate education as a component of human capital in comparison to other types of investments that relate to the formation of this stock. First, in this study we use a nonparametric method, known as prospective, to estimate the value of human capital for a sample of ten Latin...

To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to evaluate the medium term impact of early childcare (0-2 years old child). This is carried out by the estimation of efective (actual) marginal returns of early childcare in a non observable heterogeneity context. We estimate the impact on...

In this document we may find the main characteristics about the food security situation in the Mesoamerican countries. The insufficient nourishment and nutrition, as well the poverty condition that involve an important proportion of the Central American and Mexican population, produce and human...

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar la importancia de la educacion en la problematica del desarrollo social de los paises latinoamericanos, considerando la favorable incidencia que la misma puede ejercer en la reduccion de las tasas de mortalidad infantil. <p> Nuestro analisis...</p>

Este trabajo busca explicar porque se presenta en la mortalidad infantil colombiana un fenómeno de decreciente nivel y creciente inequidad. Esto se logra a través de la búsqueda de los determinantes de la mortalidad infantil y las inequidades presentes en ellos. El objetivo último de este...

English Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis has elicited an immediate and forceful economic policy response. With the height of the crisis behind us, the Governor has set out priority economic measures for the post-lockdown phase. He calls for the urgent launch of an ambitious, comprehensive,...

The primary purpose of this work consists of: (i) creation of a virtual company associated with a real company (real system) still non-existent; (ii) experimentation on this virtual enterprises (model), simulating their activity (behavior to over various periods of time); and (iii) analyze the...