The article shows the importance of developing agricultural practices of a preserving nature since such practices have positive effects not only on the degree of agricultural output sustainability but on the income of the producers as well. Land erosion is posed as a real problem to keep up...

This article presents some guidelines to design an educational policy from an economic point of view. First, a brief description of the structure and evolution of the Colombian educational sector from an international perspective is described. Then, the author discusses the distribution of...

In this article the author presents the Human Development Indicator (HDI) for four Colombian cities (Santafé de Bogotá, Medellin, Santiago de Cali and Barranquilla). The HDI is an approximate measure of the living conditions of the population, taking into account economic aspects such as...

Eucalyptus is one of the most important economical and environmental species in Colombia. The main goal of this article is to study the relationship between the discount rate and the year of Eucalyptus Saligna optimal harvest, through the Fisher and Hotelling’s method. The methodology consists...

In this article the author presents the Human Development Indicator (HDI) for four Colombian cities ( Santafé de Bogotá, Medellín, Santiago de Cali and Barranquilla). The HDI is an approximate measure of the living conditions of the population, taking into account economic aspects such as...

The article shows the importance of developing agricultural practices of a preserving nature since such practices have positive effects not only on the degree of agricultural output sustainability but on the income of the producers as well. Land erosion is posed as a real problem to keep up...

La visión integral de un sistema económico que incluye el manejo de los recursos naturales Y el proceso de devolución de residuos a la naturaleza es reciente y ello como consecuencia de que la disponibilidad de ellos se ha convertido cada vez en más escasas. Es necesaria la asociación entre...

The concept of social capital has gained importance within economic studies only until the present decade. This article analyses the origin and evolution of the concept of social capital, it also establishes its connection with the economic growth of nations basically through two ways: that...

The form of the Engel curve has long been a subject of discussion in applied econometrics and until now there has no been definitive conclusion about its form. In this paper an additive partially linear model is used to estimate semiparametrically the effect of total expenditure in the context...

el alto crecimiento logrado por la economía colombiana en los últimos años (5,9% en 2011), que la ubica entre las economías con mayor crecimiento del planeta, está sustentado principalmente en la expansión de las actividades mineras, que en su mayoría van en detrimento de los recursos...