6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica: Envíos recientes
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Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Decentralized management of public goods creates the potential for spillovers across jurisdictions. These spillovers may be particularly large in the case of river management where the river has little value to upstream ... -
Trade liberalization, economic integration and regional disparities
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)What is the impact of trade liberalization and economic integration on the geographical distribution of economic activities? To address this question the present paper proposes a conceptual framework based on recent ... -
Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)We studied here the early impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program (RRP) that is characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads with local supervision by ... -
Transportation infrastructure and productivity: evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)This paper analyses the role of transport infrastructure in determining plant level TFP. We calculate TFP from the annual manufacturing surveys using accounting and econometric procedures. We find that differential access ... -
Infraestructura y aspectos distributivos en la tarificación de los servicios públicos: ámbito y posibilidades de la tarifa social en la Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)El caso argentino presenta particularidades que sugieren y motivan una estrategia de análisis y evaluación de la tarifa social en los sectores de infraestructura. Por un lado, la ausencia de mecanismos de tarifa social (en ... -
Subsidios al consumo de los servicios públicos: reflexiones a partir del caso colombiano
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Este artículo presenta una evaluación del esquema de subsidios cruzados a las tarifas de servicios públicos vigentes en Colombia, basada en el análisis de encuestas de hogares, y estudia las propiedades de esquemas ... -
The pillars of fiscal decentralization
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Fiscal decentralization can de be defined as the process of transferring budgetary authority from central government to elected subnational governments in order to grant them power to make decisions regarding taxes and ... -
El tamaño importa: la estructura vertical de gobierno y la gestión del gasto público local
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Una gran cantidad de países alrededor del mundo presentan estructuras verticales de gobierno percibidas como ineficientes debido a un alto nivel de fragmentación jurisdiccional. La respuesta común a este diagnostico ha ... -
Local governments' capacity and performance: evidence from peruvian municipalities
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)This paper explores the extent of technical capacity constraints in Peruvian local governments. To do that, we study how effective municipalities are in using a significant income windfall due to central government transfers ... -
Decentralisation and Local and Regional Development
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Este artículo explora el impacto de la descentralización sobre el potencial para el desarrollo local y regional, tanto desde una perspectiva teórica como utilizando ejemplos de América Latina. Pone de relieve que la ... -
Intergenerational transmission of teen childbearing in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 18/07/2023)Using DHS data for six Latin American countries, we estimate the relation between a mother’s teenage childbearing status and that of her daughter. Restricting the estimating sample to mother-daughter matches in the data ...
