This paper studies the wage gap according to the formality status of workers, as well as the determinants of informal employment in the Dominican Republic. Estimates are made using microdata from the National Labor Force Survey, applying the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition together with a recent...

Este estudio estima las elasticidades del tamaño del hogar y su composición por edad, frente a la participación de los alimentos en el total de gasto. Primero, las elasticidades se estiman en relación con la participación del gasto en alimentos con respecto al total del gasto de los...

Spanish Abstract: En el marco de la reparación integral contemplada en la Ley de Víctimas, la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras crea el Programa Proyectos Productivos (PPP); su objetivo es garantizar la sostenibilidad del retorno de las víctimas del conflicto en Colombia, a partir de brindar...

Spanish Abstract: Con la implementación la Ley 1448 de 2011 se estableció que la restitución de tierras a los hogares que fueron víctimas del conflicto armado es responsabilidad de la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión y Restitución de Tierras (URT). Entre varias estrategias...

In recent years, Bolivia has made progress in terms of poverty reduction; however, many households still live with low incomes or face deprivations in other aspects. For this reason, this study aims to estimate the evolution of poverty, both in multidimensional and monetary terms, as well as the...

The political and economical reforms applied in Latina American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, since the 80 decade, in the structural adjustment context, produced a break in relation to the development model followed for the majority of these nations, with evident differences between them, in...

Winds of change, from the political perspective in Mexico, invite us to reformulate the methodological vision for the direction of public policy in the field of social development, directing their actions towards the construction of a methodological proposal that allows us to direct ourselves...

Winds of change, from the political perspective in Mexico, invite us to reformulate the methodological vision for the direction of public policy in the field of social development, directing their actions towards the construction of a methodological proposal that allows us to direct ourselves...

This paper discusses why Nicaragua is today one of the poorest countries in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. Lack of sustained economic growth is viewed as the main cause of poverty in the country. The effects of political conflicts on the breaks of the long term growth path are...

This essay represents a reply to the commented work “Una aproximación antropométrica a la medición de la pobreza crónica”, and embracing further notes on the adaptability of the proposed integral index ablest to be implemented with others anthropometric measurement criteria in the child...