La baja participación de los hogares más vulnerables en los servicios públicos sigue siendo uno de los grandes desafíos para el diseño e implementación de políticas. Existe una vasta literatura documentando los beneficios de la educación inicial para cerrar inequidades y brechas en el...

A pesar de su amplio uso en los trabajos aplicados sobre rendimientos de la educación, este artículo demuestra que la «función minceriana estándar» no arroja una medida exacta del valor económico de la Educación Superior si ésta es una variable endógena. El problema de la endogeneidad...

Competitive markets could yield socially optimum results, but although market fail in many cases. If the regulation is successful in generating competition or in replicating its incentives, the next problem to solve is to face the inherent tendency of the competition dynamic toward...

In this paper we analyse the impact of the Fifth EU R&D Framework Programme (1998-2002) in the Spanish regions, considering the characteristics of the respective regional systems of innovation. The starting theoretical framework is the interactive pattern of technological change where the...

The main aim of this paper is to prove that rural tourism can be an essential means of bringing about the development of regions where there is a significant socio-economic imbalance. In Spain, there are still many rural areas with low levels of income and productivity. Production in these areas...

As part of the International Investigation project Rural Development and the Social Economy in South American countries, Spain and Portugal, a study has been carried out by the Catholic University of Ávila in Spain regarding Rural Development and the Social Economy in the State of Mérida in...

Book review of Suárez Suárez, A. S. (2001): "Nueva Economía y nueva sociedad. Los grandes desafíos del siglo XXI", Prentice-Hall.