Crop models are a key tool for developing adaptation strategies in the agriculture sector. With their evolution over time, they have gradually incorporated new approaches and tools. This document develops a non-linear model for simulating the performance of crops with an innovative approach that...

Crop models are a key tool to develop adaptation strategies in the agriculture sector. With their evolution over time, crop models have been incorporating new approaches and tools. This paper proposes an innovative non-linear methodology to simulate crop's performance including non-linear...

This paper analyzes financial inclusion in Bolivia through aggregate indicators of access, and develops a case study for quinoa producers in the Southern Altiplano. Using primary data from a survey conducted by INESAD, it evaluates the factors that affect the probability of quinoa producers...

The aim of this paper seeks to analyse how the energy price's cojuntural behaviour and structural conditions affect the short-run and mid-run overview of the energy integration process in South America (SA). For these porpoise we - first describe the world-wide energy agenda and the effect of...

"Closing the Loop" is a project that focuses on the expectations that are linked not only to the role of science, technology and innovation (STI) in development but also to its results. Its goals are to increase the relevance and utilization of research outputs, thereby enhancing the influence...

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 paper evaluates four dimensions of food security (ie availability, sovereignty, stability and consumption and biological utilization). Finding gaps for food groups: fruits and vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates, from comparing the supply of each product with minimum nutritional...

Tax evasion is an illegal activity combated by the tax administration through different tools. Implicitly the risk is present in this type of activity. Therefore, the risk assessment is an important component on the decision of evasive behavior. At the same time, there are other factors that...

Throughout our history we have demonstrated the relationship between the decisions of energetic character, economy and the environment. For this reason is that they begin to develop and implement energetic modeling techniques as alternative tools for both the development of energy policies, and...