Se desarrolla una metodología de construcción de multiplicadores monetarios con base en una matriz de balances financieros y un conjunto de relaciones que representan los principales instrumentos de política monetaria y financiera en Colombia. Se muestran que son distintos los multiplicadores...

Este libro analiza cuatro areas importantes de reforma institucional: las instituciones politicas y la organizacion del Estado; las instituciones fiscales, como las dedicadas a presupuestos, impuestos y descentralizacion; las instituciones publicas a cargo de las politicas economicas sectoriales...

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of...

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...

Latin America in the 1990s remains the most unequal region in the world in terms of income distribution. Yet because of its changing demographics -declining fertility rates and large number of young people entering the workforce- the region now has a unique window of opportunity to reduce the...