La descentralización es un proceso político, económico y social que tiene por objetivo la democratización de poder, trasladando no solo la administración de recursos sino la toma de decisiones; la capacidad económica de resolver los problemas locales de zonas alejadas del eje central, con...

This study provides a preliminary theoretical and empirical exploration into how ‘competing sovereignties’ are shaping the political construction of food sovereignty—broadly defined as ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound...

ResumenEn las décadas posteriores a la caída del muro de Berlín, cuando se generalizó el concepto de globalización de la economía, la mayoría de los estudiosos de las relaciones internacionales abordaron el tema a partir del supuesto de una relativa unificación de los principios que...

En la presente investigación, se pretende analizar algunas de las ventajas competitivas de las empresas grannacionales como modelos empresariales dentro del marco del ALBA-TCP, motivado a que debido a la globalización como fenómeno mundial, aunado con las condiciones económicas de países...

This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characterized by a low level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated “context approach” that systematically considers domestic and international...

Based on a standard set of factors pointed out by the literature we analyze the recent and rapid accumulation of international reserves in Venezuela. Among other things, we characterize the Venezuelan case and conduct a statistical analysis using a quarterly time series model between 1996 and...

This paper examines who makes decisions in households and the factors that influence those decisions. This research was done in Venezuela, where women were questioned on decision-making with respect to four subject areas. Results indicate that a majority of households make decisions jointly....

This work examines the difficulties and formidable challenges faced by monetary authorities to control the behavior of monetary aggregates in an open economy dependent of an exportable natural resource such as Venezuela. The work not only introduces analytical arguments but also provides some...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the historical importance of both the “Andean cycle” (1899-1945) and the “October cycle” (1945-1948 y 1958-1989) in order to determine the checks and balances between both of them and the new Bolivarian cycle started 1999. The paper contains...