Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies in Colombia

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Economists most frequently contribute to public policy analysis through efforts to identify government's proper goals (the domain of welfare economics) and to guide the allocation of resources across, competing claims (the domain of cost­ effectiveness analysis). Yet a complementary and equally important analytic task is to inform the choice and management of means. Once retraining for trade­ d...

Public-private collaboration in vaccine research.

Private Saving in Colombia

The aim of this paper is to understand the determinants of private saving in Colombia and to evaluate the main hypothesis of the sharp decline in the private saving rate observed in the 1990s.There are three main results. First, the fall of the private saving rate had little impact on the level and composition of aggregate demand. Second, total private saving is not determined by corporate beha...

Analysis of some productive development policies in Uruguay

This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. We have selected three horizontal and three vertical policies and consider them in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise Innovation, Industrial Promotion and Directives for Industrial and Technological Developmen...

Infrastructural Investment Opportunities for the Development of Agricultural Businesses Based on Public- Private Partnership Approach

     Agricultural infrastructured included the entire body of basic services needed for the growth of an economy and for the improvement of the efficiency of the markets related to food and dietary fiber. Investment in agricultural infrastructure calls for a wide- spread collaboration among the various organization involved in the sector. The main purpose of the present research was to identify...