This article presents some reflections on the Colombian economic situation in 2003 and next year's perspectives. We consider that the economy has been improving since the second quarter of 2002, but at a slow rhythm. In spite of the improvement in some global and sectorial economic indicators,...

For constitituional order the Banco de la Republica should maintain low the inflation, to maintain the purchasing power of the currency, so the Bank used the outline of monetary corridors until the end of the decade, being able to reduce the inflation around ten points; but losing operability,...

The price of oil has had a marked increase since 2002. The prices of Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude -the two main benhcmarks of the market- have surpassed their historical maximum reached in 1991 during the first Gulf War, though, in real terms, the price of oil is still below...

En este trabajo se analiza el riesgo crediticio de la economía venezolana con base en el enfoque de pasivos contingentes (contingent claim analysis). Esta metodología se orienta a la obtención de indicadores que cuantifican el riesgo de insolvencia de los principales sectores macroeconómicos...

This paper has been prepared to mark the tenth anniversary of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It seeks to give an overview of the Spanish economy’s experience in this new institutional setting. It should be viewed as the result of a joint effort by a sizeable group of researchers from the...

This paper has the main target of clarifying the costs of a fiduciary monetary system, in the economic transition process. Also the advantages of such a financial system are studied, as based upon a non-nominative silver current and guarantor of development. This is also an attempting to settle...

This article establishes a relationship between the Consensus of Washington and gender inequality. It considers several important points: the reforms and the social impact; development and gender; for who is the structural process; gender budgets and the millennium objectives; and the employment...

Este informe temático describe la economía boliviana en el primer año de la presidencia de Evo Morales. Han habido mejoras en la mayoría de indicadores económicos, y también algunas nuevas iniciativas por parte del gobierno para cumplir con sus promesas a la mayoría empobrecida del país.

En 2009 el crecimiento de la economía colombiana fue casi nulo, el PIB aumento en promedio un 0,4%, siendo éste el peor desempeño de la década. Los efectos de la crisis mundial que se reflejaron en la fuerte contracción de la demanda y en la caída de la producción de los sectores...