El documento busca llamar la atención sobre la necesidad de discutir –teórica y prácticamente– los desafíos que deben ser asumidos por la gestión pública en el manejo de la elaboración presupuestal por resultados y la rendición de cuentas, especialmente considerándolas herramientas...

Evaluamos los sistemas de transferencias monetarias no contributivas en 17 países de América Latina y el Caribe para identificar factores que les impiden reducir la pobreza y la desigualdad. Para realizar esta evaluación, analizamos tres dimensiones de tamaño (número de beneficiarios,...

The marine environment provides, directly or indirectly, a wide range of benefits on humans that are not just economic but also on health and well-being. All these privileges are returned in the form of pollution. Human actions are destroying the marine living environment and with this the human...

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...

This research tries to assess the dependents and Long Term Care costs for next years in Spain. To do this, it has been taken account data from the Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status and population forecasts estimated by INE, the legal rules passed between 2006 and 2008, and...

We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30...