This research analyzes the economic impact of three alternative tax reforms on the Mexican economy, poverty and inequality, to strengthen the current program to fight against poverty in the country. The main result must be to generate greater economic impact and reduce poverty in greater...

In the study of welfare systems, the relation of the social expenditure and the indicators of vulnerability as poverty rates or income inequality indexes focus a great interest in the literature. In this way, we evaluate the productivity of social transfer policies of EU15 states, which are the...

Governance practices allow to improve the dialogue between different sectors and to satisfy the interests of the actors involved. Especially, the electricity sector, due to its economic, environmental and social impact, requires joint government, the establishment of agreements and mutual...

This paper shows the relationship between business growth and private corruption in the manufacturing industry in Colombia. This study investigates the dynamics of these variables using various techniques by implementing empirical models: estimations via panel data estimates and modeling with...

In Ecuador the commercial credit acts as a financing source between the small companies, however, exists evidence about the low access and uses of this type of credit by firms belonged to manufacturing sector, furthermore it causes a positive effect on the production of them. In this paper, a...

This paper theoretically interprets how international real capitalist competition pressures trade balances of the peripheral countries to depend on absolute cost advantages based on the super-exploitation of labor power and nature; dependence which creates cyclical dynamics within those...

The objective of this contribution is to evaluate the weekly price dynamics of the biscuit sector in the framework of an economy with moderate inflation, such as Argentina. Using weekly frequency data, five versions of the function that relate cookie price weekly variations with their possible...