Based on two programs, Planning and Participatory Budgeting and TransparentManagement and Social Control from2004-2007Development Plan ofMedellín,this article presents and analyzes the link between social capital, development (economic and social) and public policies. Thiswork shows how those...

Total fertility in Austria has declined slowly but persistently from about 1.7 in the late 1970s to around 1.4 in the mid-90s, a reduction of less than twenty percent. As we show in this paper, a much stronger reduction (over fifty percent) occured over the same period in the standardized rate...

This paper constructs a two-region endogenous growth model, where economic geography and public infrastructures play a key role. The model allows us to analyse the contribution of different types of redistributive public policies on growth, industrial geography and spatial income distribution....

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and analysing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton market is given; after that, the main reasons for...

Este texto pretende comparar as políticas de o incentivo à produção de etanol e biodiesel no Brasil e no mundo, mostrando como este último pode evitar os erros recorrentes do primeiro e permitir um desenvolvimento econômico e social mais eqüitativo. Ressalta-se que o etanol teve uma...

This paper provides a review of economic studies that analyse the use of multiple policies to cope with waste management problems. In this paper, we discuss the factors that influence selective sorting behaviour and the most appropriate policies for their promotion. The evolution of regulation...

The educational crisis in the southern regions is now becoming increasinglyclear, especially in urban areas, where the largest concentration of school dropcoincides with the highest poverty conditions of families. This, in particular,relates to technical and vocational schools and the first two...

O Objetivo principal deste texto é subsidiar e contribuir para a discussão sobre as possibilidades de conciliação entre a produção de cana, açúcar e álcool com a sustentabilidade social e ambiental e com desenvolvimento econômico. O texto se inicia com uma retrospectiva histórica da...

After the greatest economic, political and social crisis suffered by Argentina in late 2001, the economic recovery initiated a year later gave birth to one of the highest economic growth periods in the country's history. Having reached a peak in the Gini coefficient of 0.483 in 2000, inequality...

The neoclassical economic theory and the agglomeration economies literature completely overlook the importance of environmental and sustainability issues, so they cannot answer to the question whether economic sustained growth and environmental sustainability can be combined. In order to gain...