This Edition: July - September 2002
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This is the Jul. - Sep. 2002 Edition
Current Edition, Oct - Dec. 2002 is only available in spanish, the English version is under construction.


INTERVIEWS

Mariano Tommasi, Chair of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires and elected President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association LACEA for the period 2002 - 2004.
Read Abstract | Read the interview.
(pdf file 109k)

María Ines Restrepo Cañon, Director of the “Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Alternativo (PLANTE)” talked to Webpondo on the national strategy against illegal drugs of Andres Pastrana´s government.
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(pdf file 136k)

ESSAYS
En la educación, lo clave son la administración y los incentivos
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A nice essay supported by a paper recently published by the “Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico (CEDE)” of the Universidad de los Andes, full of policy implications for our educational system by Jairo Nuñez:
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Download Full Paper (pdf file 364k)

A review essay on the economic theory of internal conflicts by Jorge Restrepo.
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| Download Full Paper (pdf file 364k)

Dolarizar, Flotar, Callar
A balanced essay by Leopoldo Fergusson and Juan Fernando Vargas on the pros and contras of Colombia adopting the dollar as our national currency.
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NOTES
“Aquí lo necesario suele ser lo imposible”
by Alejandro Gaviria.

GENERAL INTEREST
Part II of “Linux and Economics and the Economics of Linux
by Franz Hamann.

See also the slides of the presentation ¿El futuro esta en juego?
Liberalismo Democrático o Social Democrácia by Alberto Carrasquilla, former Chair of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de Los Andes. Delivered February 2002.


 


  INTERVIEWS
Michele Boldrin, Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and leading academic economist, was interviewed by Webpondo on his short visit to Colombia last February. Read the interview.

ESSAYS

Given the current debate regarding the real size of Colombian fiscal deficit, Jose G. Barbier has written an informative essay explaining the different methodologies to measure it and their consequences. More.

Leopoldo Fergusson and Pablo Querubin have written a nice review on the Ricardian Equivalence Proposition supported by an excellent set of notes based on a course taught last year by Gustavo Suarez from Harvard University.

FEEDBACK
A comment by Andres de Hoyos to "Calidad de la Educación y el Crecimiento de las Naciones" by Alvaro Riascos.

NOTES
A note by Leopoldo Fergusson: "Sobre Bogotá".

GENERAL INTEREST
An informative article by Franz Hamann on "Linux and Economics and the Economics of Linux".

See also the slides of the presentation at the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango by Michele Boldrin on the European Pension System: Qué esta mal con el Sistema de Pensiones Europeo?.
 


 



 



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