Movimientos sociales, estado y democracia en Colombia

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

Indicadores de población - Indicadores de empleo y desempleo - Indicadores de nivel de vida, desigualdad y pobreza - Conceptos de agregación económica - Indicadores económicos agregados - Un sistema simplificado de cuentas nacionales - Un sistema simplificado de cuentas nacionales - El sistema tradicional de cuentas nacionales del banco de la República - El sistema de cuentas nacionales del DANE - El sistema de cuentas nacionales del DANE : tratamiento de la producción - Matriz insumo-producto - Aplicaciones de la matriz insumo-producto - Cuentas financieras y estadísticas monetarias - ...

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...