This paper emphasizes the importance of the innovation input in the productive process, as a way to maximize the capacity and effectiveness of the labour factor and its productivity. This work describes some of the factors that are enunciated and that condition the existence of good levels of...

En este trabajo se presentan varios modelos econométricos con datos de panel internacionales, que ponen de manifiesto el importante impacto positivo y significativo que el capital humano tiene sobre el desarrollo económico, a través del efecto inversión y mediante otros efectos indirectos, e...

Trust problems due to the international financial crisis originated by the "subprime" mortgages, raised the importance of a subject that became common to the economic growth models, since the end of the XX century. This work presents an approach to the concept of "trust" and its implications to...

The concept of social capital may be approached from a variety of disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, etc. Definitions of social capital use terms like networks, trust and shared action. The object of this work is to move towards a quantification of social capital and,...