Este ensayo hace referencia al origen, conceptualización y estudio de las dimensiones del capital social en el marco de las ciencias sociales, así como su relación con el desarrollo. Consiste por un lado en una revisión bibliográfica histórica del término capital social con el fin de...

Este trabajo es un análisis del Programa Empleo Temporal (PET) en Ciudad Juárez en el marco del concepto protección social. Para ello se indaga acerca de la política social en México como un intento de comprender hasta qué punto ha contribuido dicho programa a esta alternativa de...

La apertura del acceso mundial a la educación implica una tendencia positiva en la matriculación de estudiantes y el caso del nivel universitario en México no es la excepción. Paradójicamente, este incremento conlleva el riesgo de traducirse en un incremento en la tasa de abandono escolar...

We measure the general redistributive effect in the Mexican fiscal system and its northern border with two decomposition approaches. The novelty of this application lies in the use of non-parametric techniques and the fact that we did not assume any functional relationship among the variables in...

The Regional Growth Theories (RGT) are of fundamental importance not only for the understanding of the economic growth process, but for explaining inequalities or asymmetries on the inter and intraregional level, that is divergent development. The aim of this paper is to propose a general...

In this paper three components of social capital (collaboration, trust and reciprocity) on the local metalworking industry are analyzed. These components relate to contribute to the coordination on transmission of information from agents. The processes, for innovation and technological...

Access to car has traditionally been seen as an element of greater welfare of society. This is explained by its ability to increase the mobility of individuals and improving the accessibility of territories. This has led to a huge expansion of infrastructure, public services and private...

Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance’s effect on wellbeing through human capital formation....

The global financial crisis of the first decade of the 21st century had its origin in the creation and diversification of financial instruments backed by mortgages that eventually returned on high risk derivatives. As part of the shocks of the crisis a temporary restriction of credit was one of...

The border effect literature emphasizes the negative effect of distance on the international trade flows in favor of a greater proportion of trade within the national countries. However, recent works have shown that the border effect arises from a methodological error in measuring the distances...