In support of public policy, the law anticipates Government projects so as to pave the way for them, or is adjusted along the way in order to adapt the institutional framework to the processes which in fact prevail. A typical case is that of Mexican Agrarian legislation in the late 20th and...

Roncken & Chacin (2014) analyzed the correspondence between the communicative action and the orientation as well as scope of public policies implemented for citizens’ security by the administration of president Morales in Bolivia since 2006. Their research is relevant because it contributes...

This investigation has the objective of study the social cohesion and its relationship with tax evasion in Bolivia. Social cohesion, understood in simple terms as all the elements that maintain a society together, determines the cooperation between individuals. Using indicators proposed by ECLAC...

This article presents the results of research into the cooperative movement in Ecuador. After analysing the historical background, it describes the development and current situation of the movement, and discusses its weaknesses and future prospects. It also examines the role of the State in its...

Regulating the transformation of co-operative societies into other social forms poses the problems of assessing the amount of funds that will not be part of the resources of the resulting society because they are allocated to be put to the use stipulated in the society by-laws or the...

A credit section is an economic and functional demarcation within a co-operative that, without having an independent juridical personality out of the co-operative it belongs, operates as a financial entity, limiting its active and passive operations to the co-operative and its members. The...

This article analyzes the non compliance of the law in Latin America, particularly in Colombia. The core of the paper is the contrast between two different approaches: the strategic vision which argues that this failure is a consequence of the lack of institutional capacity to impose effective...

There has recently been a resurgence of interest in how institutions affect economic performance. A review of this literature reveals that the concept of an ‘institution’ means different things to different scholars, both within economics and across the social sciences. This paper discusses...

Spanish Abstract: El presente trabajo es un análisis económico de la normativa de expropiación venezolana, en la cual se concluye que la misma constituye una interferencia sustancial e irrazonable en los derechos de propiedad reales y bienes muebles, de manera que la falta de adecuadas y...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo abarca una introducción analítica para la aplicación de las teorías normativas públicas y privadas - a menudo entendidas como 'alternativas regulatorias' - a las formas básicas de las fallas del mercado, tales como los costos de agencia, información...