Introduction. Colombia is facing a fiscal situation featuring large and probably unsustainable projected deficits. The solution will almost certainly involve some combination of increased tax revenues and decreased expenditures. Tax revenue increases can come from either raising the rates or...

Abstract. In this paper we present an analysis of optimal public debt management and its interaction with debt sustainability and apply it to Colombia. Optimal public debt management, already a difficult and complex issues for emerging market economies, becomes even more challenging when a...

Abstract: High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it would be useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational...

Introducción:El estudio que se presenta a continuación responde a la formulación de una propuesta encaminada a evaluar la posibilidad de implementar un programa de fomento a la demanda de vivienda a través del instrumento de subsidio a las tasas de interés de los créditos hipotecarios de...

Las marcadas restricciones constitucionales y legales, provenientes de la Carta Política de 1991, explican en buena medida las serias dificultades que enfrenta Colombia para contener su creciente gasto público, actualmente bordeando el 18% del PIB a nivel del gobierno central. A su vez, su...