Fiscal rules enhance the credibility of economic policy, allow countercyclical and sustainable fiscal policies, and contribute to macroeconomic stability and economic growth. The Colombian government has used fiscal rules to limit the growth of expenditure and the indebtedness of sub-national...

The main objective of this research is to identify what other key factor, outside of insufficient investment, could explain the persistent road infrastructure gap in Peru. The hypothesis used here is that the Peruvian state has been acting without a long-term forecast system and, therefore,...

Las reglas fiscales aumentan la credibilidad en la política económica, permiten unmanejo fiscal contracíclico y sostenible intertemporalmente, y contribuyen a laestabilidad y al crecimiento económico. El gobierno colombiano ha usado reglasfiscales para limitar el crecimiento del gasto y el...

En los últimos años se ha hecho evidente que los gobiernos cuentan con un margen de maniobra reducido en la elaboración del presupuesto, pues una proporción importante de los gastos se encuentra predeterminada por normas legales, mandatos constitucionales, compromisos previamente adquiridos...

Nowadays some Public Administrations are reforming their information systems in order to adapt them to new needs of public management. In this sense, Budget as the main management tool needs to be part of these reforms. There are only a few number of countries that have adopted a results based...

Most western countries started to reform their public management in the eighties. These reform processes are known as New Public Management (NPM). Although, the depth and scope of the changes are not the same in all countries, they show common characteristics. This paper reviews such...

This paper has the main target of clarifying the costs of a fiduciary monetary system, in the economic transition process. Also the advantages of such a financial system are studied, as based upon a non-nominative silver current and guarantor of development. This is also an attempting to settle...

In 2001, Chile was one of the first countries in the world to adopt a structural balance fiscal rule. This paper provides the foundations of the choice of the rule, its methodological design and its initial estimates for the period 1987-2000. The paper also includes a discussion about the use of...

Este artículo se ocupa de la conveniencia de una regla fiscal de balance estructural paraColombia. En primer lugar (sección A) se examina el papel y la racionalidad de las reglasfiscales y se estudia el tema de su diseño. La sección (B) está dedicada al examen de laregla fiscal Chilena y...

El éxito de un pacto fiscal se mide por el grado en que incorpore a los diversos grupos sociales en las discusiones, el cumplimiento y la vigilancia de ciertos acuerdos sobre la forma como se financia el Estado y se utilizan los recursos públicos. Partiendo de los factores políticos que...