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...

This article brings back the debate on the limit that the State must impose to the growth of companies in the market; the author analyzes a case in the Colombian electrical energy generation industry. For this purpose, it first presents the possibilities that Colombian legislation offers to the...

We analyze the new selection of teachers in basic and media education in Antioquia as an adverse selection problem. We have known the non-teaching professionals are going relatively well in the written tests, but lose that advantage in the analysis of their curriculum vitae (they usually do not...

This paper analyzes institucional and incentives problems related to educational labor in the secondary education in Medellín (Colombia). A summary of the financial, regulatory and control structures in this sector is carried out. Moreover, we indentify and analyze the system of incentives that...

A finales del Siglo Veinte se presentó, en la mayoría de países del mundo, un cambio en las funciones que tradicionalmente cumplía el Estado, el nombre con que se le quiso caracterizar fue el Estado Regulador. Su principal función ya no es la de empresario sino la de regulador, vigilante y...

Se establece una propuesta de unión monetariapara América Latina basados en un sistema objetivoesencial, la formación de un sistema monetario latinoamericano,s. m.l. , y la elección de una moneda únicapara transacciones oficiales y privadas.Para llegar a esto examinamos los aspectos...

The contributions of the neoinstitutionalist school are recognized today like one of the more important in the economic field; this due that include a range of aspects that are fundamental in the taking of decisions of the companies called Transaction Costs in their economic analysis of the...

The contributions of the neoinstitutionalist school are recognized today like one of the more important in the economic field; this due that include a range of aspects that are fundamental in the taking of decisions of the companies called Transaction Costs in their economic analysis of the...