El objetivo de este documento es presentar un panorama de la experienciadel Programa de Erradicación de Cultivos Ilícitos Mediante AspersiónAérea de Glifosato (PECIG) y del debate que este ha suscitado al interiorde la sociedad colombiana en los últimos tiempos.Para lograr el objetivo, el...

Este documento describe de manera general las políticas conjuntas enmateria de lucha contra drogas ilícitas de la Unión Europea (UE), que danespecial atención a las políticas de reducción de demanda. Esto implica queel abordaje que este documento lleva a cabo no considera en particular...

En enero de 2006 el presidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez decidió implementarun ambicioso programa de erradicación de miles de hectáreas de cultivosilícitos en la sierra de La Macarena. La política de erradicación de cultivosilícitos se ha caracterizado por fuertes disensos entre quienes la...

Teniendo como referente la teoría del capital humano y la de señalización en el mercadolaboral, el documento aborda la influencia de variables socioeconómicas, laborales y algunasrelacionadas con las características de las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES), sobre elingreso laboral...

The Colombian reform to the health system (Law 100 of 1993) established, as strategy to facilitate the access, the universality of a health insurance that is acquired by means of the quotation in the contributive regime or by means of the gratuitous affiliation to the subsidized regime, in order...

In this paper I consider the role of optimal education policies in redistribution when individuals differ in two aspects: ability and inherited wealth. I discuss the extent to which the rules that emerge in unidimensional settings apply also in the bidimensional setting considered in this paper....

We consider a model of factor saving innovations and study the effects of exogenous changes in labor supply. In a biased innovations setting, as economies accumulate capital, labor becomes relatively scarce and expensive. As a consequence, incentives for labor saving and capital using...

We propose a one-good model where technological change is factor saving andcostly. We consider a production function with two reproducible factors: physical capital and human capital, and one not reproducible factor. The main predictions of the model are the following: (a) The elasticity of...

We present an endogenous growth model where innovation are factor saving. Tecnologies can be changed paying a cost so, tecnological change take place only if the benefits are larger than the cost. Since the gains derived from factor saving innovations depend on factor abundance, biased...

We study the effect of learning another language on the social and individual welfare by a people group who do not know that language. We use network economics approach in order to take into account the externalities of languages. The equilibrium with decentralized choices is not as good as the...