Colombia has some environmental and ecologicalcharacteristics specific for the neotropic, whichmake it specific and unique. However, developmentmodels applied are against these characteristics.This article shows how governmental policies donot recognize characteristics which are inherentto...

La maldición de los recursos naturales" es un término acuñado por Auty (1993) y reforzado por los resultados de Sachs y Warner (1995, 1999) para explicar por qué países con una mayor riqueza relativa de recursos naturales tienden a crecer a tasas inferiores que los países que tienen menos...

Esta investigación busca analizar dos tópicos, en primer lugar, los impactos que en Colombia tienen los precios internacionales del petróleo (referencia WTI) y los alimentos (carne, lácteos, azúcar, aceites), sobre los diferentes sectores económicos con los que poseen vínculos directos....

Abstract:Previous research has shown that richer people are more likely to engage in an environmentalcause. We extend it by considering the joint effect between subjective income and a set of macroeconomicvariables. For doing so, we employ the fifth wave of the World Values Survey (WVS).This...

Esta investigación explora el emprendimiento alrededor del sector de la minería y el petróleo en Colombia, y en particular, busca determinar si el auge minero energético por el que atraviesa el país está creando capacidades emprendedoras que puedan ser transferidas o utilizadas en otras...

El derretimiento y retroceso de los glaciares colombianos reducen la oferta de agua, afectando al sector agrícola, responsable del 10-14% del PIB colombiano. Utilizando juegos económicos experimentales estudiamos las decisiones sobre el uso del agua y la respuesta a instituciones que facilitan...

The application of current principles of sustainable tourism development in natural areas has led to the emergence of ecotourism as a distinct form of tourism, designed to respect the integrity of natural landscapes, ecological biodiversity, in accordance with the requirements of certain...

The protected areas represent – according to the opinion of many specialists – the main component of national and international strategies concerning the preservation/protection sustained by the governments and specialized organisms. As a result of the expansion of this country, in China...

The impact of product ratings is significant in the experience goods market, whose intangible products are difficult to evaluate before consumption. Product ratings can reduce information asymmetries because they represent a credible signal of quality and thus positively affect product sales. In...

Increasing food demand will most likely be met with agricultural intensification and land clearing, exacerbating environmental consequences associated with food supply. The mechanisms and trade-offs between agriculture and the environment are heterogeneous and not well understood, yet key to...