Complex systems ruled by principles such as self-organization, interaction,interdependence, back-feeding, initial conditions sensitivity and continuous emergenceand adaptation, is a new theoretical approach, still not very used to analyze space issues ofproduction organization and/or market...

En este ensayo se pretende analizar, críticamente, un aspecto que consideramos crucial en toda propuesta de desarrollo, ya sea que éste se entienda como "desarrollo económico", como "desarrollo humano sostenible", o como desarrollo a secas: los criterios formales de decisión y sus...

La eco-eficiencia es una filosofía administrativa, que impulsa a las actividades productivas a buscar mejoras ambientales y beneficios económicos. Examina una eficiencia en el uso de los recursos naturales, al producir más con menos. Esta eficiencia debe ser medida y evaluada, con el objetivo...

Currently almost all international shipments need to use more than one type of transportation from point of origin to final destination. Each one of the types of global transport has played an essential role in facilitating geographic diversification. In this paper we evaluate through Principal...

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the Costa Rican students identified as “resilient†in the PISA 2009evaluation; and compares them to their peers that, despite having similar socioeconomicbackground, obtained poorer results in this test. The article shows that differences inperformance may...

In this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes(2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year.We find that there is...

Este artículo mide la diferencia salarial entre hombres y mujeres, la cual es atribuida a discriminación y presenta su evolución durante la década de los noventas. Se utiliza la técnica econométrica desarrollada por Oaxaca y Ransom en 1994 para medir la diferencia salarial debido a...