The causes of illegal drug industry growth in the Andes, Anti-Drug Policies and their effectiveness

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El leasing habitacional como alternativa al crédito hipotecario

El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar la evolución de las políticas de vivienda en Colombia, así como hacer un acercamiento a las crisis del mercado hipotecario por las que ha pasado el país en el último siglo. Igualmente se analizan las opciones que trae el leasing habitacional como alternativa al crédito hipotecario y se identifica para qué segmentos de la población se ajusta cada tipo de financiación. Los análisis y las conclusiones de éste trabajo apuntan a explicar cómo las diferentes opciones de crédito pueden disminuir el déficit habitacional en Colombia.

Continuous improvement programs as processes for organizational learning: a case study of a company in the food products industry

This article intends to show the relationships between quality practices and the process of organizational learning. When we look at the literature about programs of continuous improvement we see that theoreticians consider that the process of organizational learning is a superior stage in the quality culture adopted by companies. To investigate this possibility, we put together a series of indicators taken from classic authors who have written about organizational learning. Adopting a multiple methodology, we applied these indicators to two plants belonging to the Nestlé food product company which have introduced continuous improvement programs over the last two years.

El contrato de leasing aeronáutico

El leasing se presenta como una figura u operación que le permite a las empresas aéreas, utilizar bienes de equipo que por su naturaleza implican un altísimo valor de adquisición, con todos los beneficios financieros, contables y fiscales

Cláusulas abusivas en el contrato de leasing

El presente trabajo tiene como propósito fundamental plantear una respuesta a un problema que se ha venido presentando en la práctica con relación a la utilización del contrato de leasing.

Leasing alternativa de reconvención industrial para pequeñas y medianas empresas del sector del calzado

Determinar si son las Compañías de Financiamiento Comercial especializadas en Leasing la alternativa viable para la reconversión de las pequeñas y medianas empresas tomando como referencia el sector de calzado

Atractivos reales, perspectivas y estrategias del leasing frente a los cambios efectuados por la reforma tributaria de 1995

diversos aspectos relacionados con la actividad del leasing en Colombia, para formular los atractivos reales, perspectivas y estrategias del sector a raíz de los cambios que conlleva la Reforma Tributaria de 1.995, sustentándolos de manera adecuada.

Labor's shares - aggregate and industry: accounting for both in a model of unbalanced growth with induced innovation

The relative stability of aggregate labor's share constitutes one of the great macroeconomic ratios. However, relative stability at the aggregate level masks the unbalanced nature of industry labor's shares – the Kuznets stylized facts underlie those of Kaldor. We present a two-sector – one labor-only and the other using both capital and labor – model of unbalanced economic development with induced innovation that can rationalize these phenomena as well as several other empirical regularities of actual economies. Specifically, the model features (i) one sector ("goods" production) becoming increasingly capital-intensive over time; (ii) an increasing relative price and share in total output of the labor-only sector ("services"); and (iii) diverging sectoral labor's shares despite (iii) an aggregate labor's share that converges from above to a value between 0 and unity. Furthermore, the model (iv) supports either a neoclassical steadystate or long-run endogenous growth, giving it the potential to account for a wide range of real world development experiences.

Controlling regional monopolies in the natural gas industry: the role of transport capacity

This paper analyzes some optimal fiscal, pricing, and capacity investment policies for controlling regional monopoly power in the natural gas industry. By letting the set of control instruments available to the social planner vary, we provide a characterization of the technological and demand conditions under which “excess” capacity in the transport network arises in response to the loss of the two other control instruments, namely, transfers and pricing. Hence, the analysis yields some insights on an economy’s incentives to invest in infrastructures for the purpose of integrating geographically isolated markets.