The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water services on network access and water quality. The results suggest that although the early privatization of water services had little impact on access to the sanitation network,...

In a press article in the International Herald Tribune o September 27th, 2007, the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, established “Henceforth, climate change will no longer be a primarily environmental concern (...) As a political issue, climate change becomes closely linked...

This study applies the extension of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition developed by Albrecht, van Vuuren and Vroman (2009) to analyze the gender wage gap with selection correction in Uruguay. The wage gap is increasing in the upper part of the wage distribution suggesting a glass ceiling...