Spanish Abstract: La competitividad se ha estudiada con diferentes nombres desde el nacimiento de la economía y las firmas; el uso del concepto es objeto de debate por las relaciones con diversos desarrollos teóricos en la administración, la geografía económica y las políticas. Objetivo:...

The purpose of this article is to build the PQLI Index for each one of the 22 Departments in which the Republic of Guatemala is divided and afterwards to determine which subregions are those in demand for further welfare. The data used was gathered from an updated version of the Integrated...

Este trabajo avanza en el estudio de la convergencia en el ingreso regional en Colombia, a través del análisis de las cifras de ingreso departamental calculadas por el CEGA recientemente. Los resultados muestran un proceso de polarización entre Bogotá y el resto de departamentos. También...

The role of the state in nineteenth-century Spanish economy has been very controversial and has generally received negative judgments. This article tries to evaluate the intervention in the regulation of rice cultivation. Justified against malaria, this regulation encountered great difficulties...

This paper critically discusses the discourse on fragile and failing states and reviews current debates about state-building. The authors argue for an alternative conceptualization of states emerging from hybrid political orders. Hybrid political orders combine elements of the introduced Western...

The issue of gender violence has an important historic and social dimension. The social development of the last decades has allowed us to overcome the old male patriarchal order, but the woman continues to suffer a subordinate and submissive position towards the man in many situations of daily...