There's an existing trend on the current public service dynamics that thinks the State as entity. Such entity is limited to establishing prices and qualities of the services it regulates, based on costs and information offered by agents: thus, full-filling a function essentially technical. The...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the financial development and economic growth in Latin American countries. First, we show the high correlation between financial system indicators and GDP. Second, we test out that regardless the financial structure of each...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of financial development on economic growth. The contribution of both capital and credit market movements on the dynamics of Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) over the period 1996-2017 is empirically tested using an Autoregressive Distributive...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of financial development on economic growth. The contribution of both capital and credit market movements on the dynamics of Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) over the period 1996-2017 is empirically tested using an Autoregressive Distributive...

De acuerdo a la teoría económica y la literatura empírica, el sistema por su rol de intermediación financiera, cumple un importante papel en la promoción del crecimiento económico. Sin embargo, en el caso boliviano la evidencia empírica existente es limitada, por lo cual este trabajo...

Los programas de microfinanzas, a la vez que estrategia para reducir la pobreza, pueden tener efecto en el desempeño escolar de los hijos de sus clientes. Este trabajo utiliza datos de tres encuestas realizadas a hogares clientes de organizaciones microfinancieras en Bolivia, para examinar...

Spanish Abstract: La expansión del Internet ha facilitado el acceso y uso de servicios financieros. Sin embargo, no es claro si estos beneficios se manifiestan en los municipios rurales de Colombia, que históricamente han tenido una menor cobertura bancaria y de Internet. Utilizando datos del...

El programa de transferencias condicionadas en Colombia, Familias en Acción, inició en el año 2009 un plan de bancarización de sus beneficiarios. El propósito central consiste en abrir cuentas de ahorro de bajo monto para cada uno de los beneficiarios del programa, que no sólo permiten el...

During the 1990s, household public services in Colombia went through an important reform: the entrance of the private sector was allowed and users could participate in the surveillance and control of these services. However, given the collective dimension and monopolistic character of most of...

Government plays a necessary role in keeping markets working efficiently and fairly. Market failures –situations in which the invisible hand does not make everyone better off– are among the oldest and most universally accepted justifications for regulation. However, incidents of market...