Age-income and education-income profiles by gender in Cartagena por Navarro-España, Jorge Luis

“…The aim of this article is to analyse age-income and education-income profiles by gender, as well as to determinate the variables that mostly explain incomes fluctuations, and finally, evaluate educational returns by gender in the city of Cartagena during 1999 in reference with other recent results. …”
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How much does the informality to the colombian health system cost? por Londoño Montoya, Carolina María, Gómez Muñetón, Jhoana Marcela, Celín Camargo, Yennifer Ester, Restrepo Zea, Jairo Humberto

“…This article calculates the loss that the system may experience when it ceases to receive these contributions, using the Large Integrated Household Survey (GEIH) of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), corresponding to the period 2008-2013. …”
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Economic development and tourism: ¿Does the Heritage makes a difference? por Consuegra-de la Ossa, Humberto

“…The issue treated is the relationship between tourism and economic development based in a classification of these countries like heritage owner and no-owner by UNESCO. Thus, two Caribbean state islands (Jamaica and Dominican Republic) and two Caribbean continental countries (Guatemala and Guyana) are compared; also aggregate comparisons are made among Heritage owner countries (Guatemala and Dominican Republic) and Heritage no-owner countries (Guyana and Jamaica). …”
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Aging impacts and labor market dynamics on pension public expenditures in Colombia. por Pérez-Vásquez, Andrés, Sandoval-Castaño, Juan

“…This document aims to estimate the impacts of population aging and labor market dynamics on public spending on pensions in the short and medium term by simulating different formality and labor productivity scenarios taking into account the institutional factors of the pension system Colombian. …”
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Institutional Isomorphism in academic environments: The case ISO IWA-2 por Daza-Villadiego, Carmen Cecilia

“…Based on this, we travel along the theory and types of isomorphism in which organizations succumb. …”
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An analysis of the economic theories of Solow and IS-LM: between Hayek and Keynes por Rincón-Soto, Idana, Arango-Buelvas, Leon, Torres-Castellar, Roberto

“…On this regard, being useful to developed countries, and not to the developing ones.…”
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Perspectives on financial education, its importance, and impacts of its incorporation in the educational levels por Vázquez Carrillo, Nitzia, Díaz Mondragón, Manuel

“…In this sense, the transmission of knowledge on financial education from an early age provides long-term benefits, triggering improvements in decision-making both at the micro and macro levels. …”
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Risk assessment of Colombia’s import operations por de la Hoz, Andrea, Camargo-Montoya, Paola, Saldarriaga-Arango, Carolina, Praj, Dusan

“…Companies are often making determined efforts for having an adequate security while trading. However, if we take a close look at the import sector, we can notice that there is an evident lack of risk management awareness. …”
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The future of colombian universities: impacts on the change of times por Correa-Reyes, Juan Gregorio

“…Finally, we explore prospectively sustainability scenarios required by the Colombian Public Universities in order to adapt to the changing times considering their role during the last decade.…”
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The difficult and necessary path of a plural and heterodox approach in the Economics’ discipline por Parada, Jairo

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Statutory inspection criteria for the evaluation of internal control to prevent and control fraud. por Polo De Lobatón, Gregoria, Lobatón Polo, Daulis, Aguirre Redondo, Sandra Milena, Villero Jiménez, Sacmires

“…This article is aimed at identifying Statutory Inspection criteria needed in evaluation of Internal Control for preventing and controlling fraud. To do so, we took the case of a company, with few results in risk management, due to lack of implementation of adequate mechanisms, and lack of a structure in their administrative processes for risk and fraud prevention. …”
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Strategic planning for the exploration and exploitation business unit of a State-Owned oil company por Cedeño, Martha, Poquechoque-Cortez , Liliana, Roca-Ortiz , Rosa T.

“…In this way, diagnostic mechanisms were established that shed light on firm performance and on its role at local and national spheres. …”
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Administrative corruption in Colombia: Reflections about it's complexity por Pardo-Ramos, Oscar

“…It shows how the fighting against the corruption in Colombia has been very complicated because there are degrading factors not only of the people life but also the economic system of this country, such as: inefficiency of justice, drug trafficking and armed conflict.One of the most important topics showed in this document is based on the different ways to attack the corruption, by dedicating big efforts to get best results: involving the institutional forces with the social actors and articulating the efforts of the government with the duties and rights of the citizens.Key Words: politic corruption, public servant, bureaucracy, fraud, proceedings, public hiring.…”
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The role of the State in the development of the colombian agroindustry por Arango-Buelvas, León, Pérez-Fuentes, Dewin Iván

“…Throughout history, we have witnessed that the degree of the State intervention in economic affairs depends on the State’s structure, the current economic model and even on the interest in being an active or passive agent in economic activities. …”
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Growth and survival of firms in the footwear manufacturing sector in Equador. por Morales Ramos, Lilian Victoria, Morales Ramos, Karla Estefania, Valle Álvarez, Alexandra Tatiana

“…The present study was motivated by successful footwear manufacturing sector in Equador, particularly in Tungurahua region, and explains the determinants of the survival characteristics of these companies established in the Ecuadorian market. Data used for the quantitative analysis corresponds to production, sales and installed capacity, obtained from the firms’ financial statements; On the other hand, survival characteristics consider age and initial size of firms. …”
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Associative dynamics of the business sector in Cartagena de Indias (1860-1960). por Del Río Cortina, Abel, Elías Caro, Jorge

“…In this paper we consider Del Castillo family as leader within the network of business entrepreneurs in Cartagena de Indias in the 1860-1960 period. …”
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Looking at the environmental quality estimation methods from an environmental accounting perspective. por Vergara Arrieta, José Julio, Álvarez Carval, Yesith

“…Throughout this document, we try to answer the next questions: Why is it important to value the ecosystems? …”
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Health system investments in the Bolivar region: an analysis of efficiency and productivity por Maza-Avila, Francisco, Vergara-Schmalbach, Juan Carlos

“…Also, most of them experienced decreases in productivity due to the lack of efficiency…”
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Rural credit concentration and poverty in Colombia. por Cala Amaya, Myriam Mercedes

“…Relative Participation Index (IPR) is considered by department, by line and by user, it is shown how the development credit policy in the country presents a high concentration in typically receiving departments and is channeled mainly to medium and large producers. In this way, we can conclude that the small landowners in the departments furthest from the center of the country receive less allowances, contributing to their poverty levels lasting over time.…”
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Analysis about the financial viability for producing hydroponic lettuce in greenhouses: a case study using a Multi-factor Approach por Gerais-Ramos, Felipe, Ketlin-Kaffer, Karen, Catapan, Anderson

“…The methodology we used was the multi-factor indexes one so that we could measure the risks associated with the project. …”
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