En este artículo se discute la necesidad de políticas dirigidas a reducir las disparidades económicas en Colombia. La principal razón es que las desigualdades que se observan entre las regiones no son deseables desde el punto de vista económico, social y político. Además, los últimos...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tuvo como propósito estudiar la dinámica de la empatía, el bienestar subjetivo y las creencias religiosas en estudiantes de pregrado de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. Para ello se desarrolló un estudio cuantitativo, de diseño no...

Spanish Abstract: A lo largo de la historia, la religión se relaciona con una gran industria de servicios. Los servicios provistos por instituciones religiosas son con frecuencia considerados como poseedores de externalidades que afectan al sistema político, económico y social. En...

In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

The article deals with the chances of illustration of Mohammed: is it forbidden to depict Mohammed in the Islam? What the history or the religion say about it? The following sentences try to get a brief but deep approaching to that issue, underlying the importance that just a few time ago (in...

Egyptian activist and author Farag Foda was assassinated fifteen years ago as a consequence of his writings, in which he criticized the Islamists, questioned the official version of Muslim history and advocated secularism. The present article offers an introduction to Foda's thought, and...

En el presente trabajo, con datos de la encuesta nacional de opinión pública Religión, Salud y Emancipación Juvenil del año 2008 (dECON-FCS, Uruguay, ISSP), se estima a través de modelos probit la probabilidad de que un individuo sea feliz haciendo especial hincapié en su relación con la...

In this study, using data from the Religion, Health and Youth Emancipation survey, 2008 (DECON-FCS, Uruguay, ISSP), we estimate the probability of being happy with special emphasis on its relationship with religion and religiosity. We find that those who profess the Protestant faith are less...

This paper provides a systematic review of the scientific literature on fertility and its relationship with economics. We explore theoretical and empirical frameworks developed in the last fifty years, emphasizing on the classical (Becker, Easterling) and unorthodox approaches (Bongaarts,...

The present paper is a first attempt to measure and explain, from an economic perspective, the religious behavior of uruguayans (women in this stage), and compare the results with those obtained for some Latin American and developed countries. In this first stage, the efforts were concentrated...