Vol 21, No 49 (2018): October-December

This paper presents the ways in which social actors articulate after the mining incursions and the legacy of protest mobilizations that occurred during the last part of the 20th Century (1990-2000) in the municipality of La Vega (Cauca, Colombia). To do this, documentary analysis was applied with a survey that served as a tool for Social Network Analysis (SNA). Indicators and expected values were typified, and the corresponding graph was constructed to track conflict and governance. As a result, new ways were found to process the phenomenon which has strong roots in peasant organizations and socio-centric arrangements that, although generate knowledge, require multi scalar connections that overcome virtual inbreeding arrangements.

This article studies the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay from 1990 to 2015. Using the cointegration panel technique, it was found that 70% of the countries analyzed –including the consolidated region– do not meet the Environmental Kuznets Curve. In the cases of Uruguay and Colombia, the Environmental Kuznets Curve is met due to the reduction of long-term income elasticities with respect to short-term income elasticities. However, the error correction mechanism for the Colombian case is not statistically significant because the relationship between emissions and economic growth may be divergent in the long term.

This paper shows the importance of system dynamics as a complement for econometrics and its use for formulating economic policies through dynamic command tables. It explores the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis validity in Peru. Afterwards, the research models an influences diagram to describe the complex relationships between economy and environment. Finally, it offers a Forrester dynamic simulation for carbon dioxide (CO2), which combines Kaya’s identity with the process of Peru’s GDP formation, including renewable energy. This simulation model corroborates Kuznets’ results for CO2 and allows to design policies for the model’s generating variables.

This article studies the sustainable development profile of 39 microregions in the state of Paraná,
Brazil. For each microregion, we analyzed the environmental, economic, social and institutional dimensions.
In order to verify the indicators evolution and improvement, we used data from 2000 and
2012 in the Sustainability Panel to generate the Sustainable Development Index. The results show
that the microregion of Curitiba had the best performance in sustainable development. However,
the most developed microregions from 2000 to 2012 were Pato Branco, Londrina and Ponta Grossa,
whereas the least developed ones were Jaguariaíva, São Mateus do Sul, Prudentópolis and Lapa.

The paper’s objective is to analyze how socioeconomic factors are related, businesses characteristics and institutional aspects with the sales income levels of merchants, both formal and informal, of the market squares of the Bolívar and La Esmeralda neighborhoods of the city of Popayán, Colombia. To do this, a stochastic quantile regression model with logarithms was used. Results show that factors such as gender and age decrease income, but others such as access to formal credits increase them; however, institutional support impacts differently in both market places or squares.

This document discusses employment generation with public policies as an instrument for reintegration of victim population during the post-conflict. It seeks to validate the hypothesis according to which two stages may be identified: institutional strengthening and subsequent economic adjustments. It is based on a conceptual model proposed by the World Bank for implementing sustainable peace alternatives and case studies in which the importance of factors that contribute to productive inclusion of victim population is highlighted, such as: institutional strengthening, security, social and infrastructure investment, individual and social capacity generation, and educational system’s improvement to create long-term impacts in the labor market.

This paper studies the dynamics of housing prices in Colombia from 2000 to 2016. The non-conventional theoretical foundations for price determination are presented, along with two quantitative strategies: 1) a descriptive study of the market and the possible financial fragility that has allowed the increase in prices of new housing; and 2) a VEC econometric model that captures the short and long term price determinants. The paper concludes that the dynamics of housing prices is influenced by mortgage loans and construction costs, and has a strong long-term relationship between current and previous behavior of prices, made evident in speculative financial scenarios.

This paper analyses government instruments for intervening community organizations to study public policy implementation mechanisms mentioned in the 28th municipal agreement of 2014. From such document and based on classification criteria provided by analysts of public policy design, emerge reflections on how the typology of instruments and their characteristics allow observing implementation possibilities and government effectiveness. In this way, it is possible to detect that implementation difficulties will present further on for reaching the proposed objectives. This is due to directionality flaws and high conditioning of governmental instruments, which leads to rethink the way in which these public policies are being constructed.