La Gestión para Resultados (GpR) es una estrategia de gestión pública que conlleva tomar decisiones sobre la base de información confiable acerca de los efectos que la acción gubernamental tiene en la sociedad. Varios países desarrollados la han adoptado para mejorar la eficiencia y la...

This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is found to play a greater role in determining...

This study develops a conceptual and analytical reference framework for the preparation of case studies on political determinants of the level of success of the reforms of the system of public-sector personnel in Latin America. Its main goal is to orient the empirical work toward the evaluation...

In contrast to the limited impact of aggregate-level productive development policies (PDPs) in Argentina, micro-level PDPs in several sectors have proven highly successful. This study seeks to understand how these PDPs succeeded in a challenging environment, what kinds of mechanisms were...

This document aims to contribute to the development of a tool to analyze Productive Development Programs (PDPs). The methodology for mapping and measuring of institutional performance (MIDI, from its acronym in Spanish) constitutes an effort to quantify and measure the organizational aspects...

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Públlica y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 14 y 15 de noviembre de 2002. Este trabalho visa analisar o sistema de serviço civil e a gestão de recursos humanos da...

The Mexican public sector has undergone a dramatic reorganization and professionalization since the initiation of economic crisis and reform in 1982. Though such reforms appear to have improved efficiency in the provision of public services, administrative changes did not include the...

This study comprehensively examined institutional arrangements for the management of public employment and human resources in the central government agencies, how these arrangements work and the context of these arrangements. In other words, the study focused on the contexts, structures,...

The paper discuses the Brazilian scientific and technological framework, which has allowed the country to achieve outstanding advances in several fronts when compared to other developing countries. It focuses on the incentives for supporting firms' innovative activities, which include a wide...

Este documento apresenta uma contribuição para o desenvolvimento de análises de programas de desenvolvimento produtivo (PDP). A proposta metodológica do Mapeamento e Índice de Desempenho Institucional (MIDI) constitui um esforço para quantificar e mensurar os aspectos institucionais que...