Sistemas de ejecución y estrategias regionales de desarrollo en Colombia

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Tendencias de la urbanización, inversión de la polarización y política espacial en Colombia

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Gasto, inversión y financiamiento para el desarrollo sostenible en Colombia

Este documento fue preparado por Francisco Alberto Galán y Francisco Javier Canal, Colombia, en el marco del Proyecto CEPAL/PNUD 'Financiamiento para el Desarrollo Ambientalmente Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe', para ser utilizado como insumo en el Panel sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrollo Sostenible dentro de la Conferencia Regional de América Latina y el Caribe preparatoria de la Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Sostenible. Las opiniones expresadas en este documento, que no ha sido sometido a revisión editorial, son de la exclusiva responsabilidad de los autores y pueden no coincidir con las de la Organización.

Implicaciones de la política macroeconómica, los choques externos y los sistemas de protección social en la pobreza, la desigualdad y la vulnerabilidad en América Latina y el Caribe: Colombia

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Hacia la municipalización de la educación en Colombia

Presenta el contexto general político administrativo dentro del cual tiene lugar la municipalización de la educación en Colombia, y hace un primer planteamiento sobre los sectores de la población en los cuales este proceso debe poner el énfasis, en función de objetivos de desarrollo social e integración cultural.

Estudio económico de América Latina, 1981: Colombia: versión preliminar

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Juventud y sociedad en Colombia

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Pactos sociales para una protección social más inclusiva: Experiencias, obstáculos y posibilidades en América Latina y Europa

Presentaciones de Alicia Bárcena y Christof Kersting.

Gobernanza del gas natural no convencional para el desarrollo sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe: experiencias generales y tendencias en la Argentina, el Brasil, Colombia y México

El presente estudio tiene por objeto relacionar la problemática del desarrollo sostenible con la explotación de gas natural no convencional a nivel general y en específico para los países seleccionados

The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) Study: Methods of Data Collection and Characteristics of Study Sample

Background: The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) study was established to explore the hypothesis that common musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and associated disability are importantly influenced by culturally determined health beliefs and expectations. This paper describes the methods of data collection and various characteristics of the study sample. Methods/Principal Findings: A standardised questionnaire covering musculoskeletal symptoms, disability and potential risk factors, was used to collect information from 47 samples of nurses, office workers, and other (mostly manual) workers in 18 countries from six continents. In addition, local investigators provided data on economic aspects of employment for each occupational group. Participation exceeded 80% in 33 of the 47 occupational groups, and after pre-specified exclusions, analysis was based on 12,426 subjects (92 to 1018 per occupational group). As expected, there was high usage of computer keyboards by office workers, while nurses had the highest prevalence of heavy manual lifting in all but one country. There was substantial heterogeneity between occupational groups in economic and psychosocial aspects of work; three-to fivefold variation in awareness of someone outside work with musculoskeletal pain; and more than ten-fold variation in the prevalence of adverse health beliefs about back and arm pain, and in awareness of terms such as "repetitive strain injury" (RSI). Conclusions/Significance: The large differences in psychosocial risk factors (including knowledge and beliefs about MSDs) between occupational groups should allow the study hypothesis to be addressed effectively.

Le politiche giudiziarie inglesi degli anni 2000: mutamento di paradigma e rafforzamento dell'incisività politica dei giudici

The Ph.D. dissertation analyses the reasons for which political actors (governments, legislatures and political parties) decide consciously to give away a source of power by increasing the political significance of the courts. It focuses on a single case of particular significance: the passage of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 in the United Kingdom. This Act has deeply changed the governance and the organization of the English judicial system, has provided a much clearer separation of powers and a stronger independence of the judiciary from the executive and the legislative. What’s more, this strengthening of the judicial independence has been decided in a period in which the political role of the English judges was evidently increasing. I argue that the reform can be interpreted as a «paradigm shift» (Hall 1993), that has changed the way in which the judicial power is considered. The most diffused conceptions in the sub-system of the English judicial policies are shifted, and a new paradigm has become dominant. The new paradigm includes: (i) stronger separation of powers, (ii) collective (as well as individual) conception of the independence of the judiciary, (iii) reduction of the political accountability of the judges, (iv) formalization of the guarantees of judicial independence, (v) principle-driven (instead of pragmatic) approach to the reforms, and (vi) transformation of a non-codified constitution in a codified one. Judicialization through political decisions represent an important, but not fully explored, field of research. The literature, in particular, has focused on factors unable to explain the English case: the competitiveness of the party system (Ramseyer 1994), the political uncertainty at the time of constitutional design (Ginsburg 2003), the cultural divisions within the polity (Hirschl 2004), federal institutions and division of powers (Shapiro 2002). All these contributes link the decision to enhance the political relevance of the judges to some kind of diffusion of political power. In the contemporary England, characterized by a relative high concentration of power in the government, the reasons for such a reform should be located elsewhere. I argue that the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 can be interpreted as a result of three different kinds of reasons: (i) the social and demographical transformations of the English judiciary, which have made inefficient most of the precedent mechanism of governance, (ii) the role played by the judges in the policy process and (iii) the cognitive and normative influences originated from the European context, as a consequence of the membership of the United Kingdom to the European Union and the Council of Europe. My thesis is that only a full analysis of all these three aspects can explain the decision to reform the judicial system and the content of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. Only the cultural influences come from the European legal complex, above all, can explain the paradigm shift previously described.

Is There a Culture of Violence in Colombia?

During the past decade, economic factors have been given a prominent role in explaining political violence. The example of Colombia shows that economic factors can explain the ubiquitous nature of violence in that country only in the context of a socio-culturally rooted propensity to use violence. The study draws on relevant published research to identify evidence of a culture of violence in Colombia and discusses the structural conditions that allow or cause such a culture to arise. It is shown that violence in Colombia cannot be explained without taking into account cultural factors that are in turn dependent on other explanatory factors, including economic ones.

Individual socialization or politocultural context? The cultural roots of volunteering in Switzerland

Volunteering rates in Switzerland vary substantially across language regions. In this article, we investigate the cultural roots of this variation by presenting and empirically testing two different conceptualizations of how linguistic culture is related to individual volunteering. Whereas the first perspective perceives the individual as belonging to a particular language community and its norms and values as crucial for individual volunteering, the other sees the linguistic culture mainly as an important context in which an individual lives and which therefore influences individual volunteering. Empirically, we base our analysis on new survey data from 60 Swiss communes and apply a Bayesian multi-level analysis in order to disentangle the linguistic group from contextual effects. Our analysis supports the view that cultural patterns of civic self-organization can indeed explain regional volunteering behaviour in Switzerland. Whereas the propensity to volunteer is generally highest in German-speaking Switzerland, our findings reveal that it is the group of French speakers that exhibits the highest propensity to volunteer when controlling for language region.

La cultura en el desarrollo económico local : una aplicación en el Museo de Antioquia (Medellín , Colombia)

La cultura se presenta hoy como un elemento determinante en la planificación del desarrollo, tanto por los efectos económicos que genera en términos de empleo, ingresos, y producción; como por ser un instrumento útil y eficaz para el fortalecimiento de la independencia, la soberanía y la identidad de los territorios en un mundo globalizado. El objetivo de este estudio es reconocer el impacto de la cultura en el desarrollo económico a través de un ejercicio empírico centrado en el Museo de Antioquia de la ciudad de Medellín (Colombia). Se aplicó una encuesta de percepción a los habitantes y visitantes de la ciudad. Los datos se sometieron a un análisis descriptivo y se formalizó un Modelo de Regresión Logística en busca de identificar y explicar los elementos que permiten vincular la cultura y el desarrollo. Se encontró que cerca al 90% de los encuestados afirmaron que la existencia del Museo de Antioquia es importante para el desarrollo económico de la ciudad de Medellín, identificándolo como un atractivo turístico y cultural que genera impactos positivos en el crecimiento económico y el bienestar social.