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Governance Problems Related to Economic Development in Medellín’s Periphery

Polanco, Jorge - In: Lecturas de Economía (2010) 73, pp. 215-242

Medellín is a territorial governance problem related to economic development. The scope of this article is to identify … technical and political difficulties of governance. Technical difficulties concern the relationship between economic development …-objective Spatial Analysis. Results suggest that technical difficulties of governance are affected by economic agglomeration effects …

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The War on Drugs is Counterproductive, Once Again

Ortiz, Carlos Humberto - In: Lecturas de Economía (2009) 71, pp. 19-42

A two-sector general equilibrium model that included drugs as basic goods was relatively successful at explaining the waste of resources that the war on drugs incurs (Ortiz, 2003). Due to the assumption of constant productivity, the model predicted the rise of the drug price with supply...

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Selección adversa en la convocatoria docente para educación primaria, media y básica en Colombia

Orozco, David Tobón; Piedad Patricia Restrepo R.; … - In: Lecturas de Economía (2007) 67, pp. 161-194

This paper analyses the selection of teachers in basic and media education in Colombia under an adverse selection model. We monitor the teacher´s wages and the institutional change, and the results of one of the contests for Medellin. The relative wages of attachment to the teaching profession...

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Cambios en los retornos de la educación en Bogotá entre 1997 y 2003

Ramírez, Nohora Yulieth Forero; Niño, Luis Fernando Gamboa - In: Lecturas de Economía (2007) 66, pp. 225-250

This paper estimates the returns to education in Bogotá in 1997 and 2003 by means of Heckman’s maximum likelihood methodology. The analytical framework used is Human Capital Theory. Instead of using the ‘Encuesta Nacional de Hogares’ (National Household Survey), as does current...

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