Search

El artículo analiza la eliminación de los subsidios a los servicios en Venezuela, incluidos los sectores de servicios de energía e infraestructura y la implementación del socialismo del siglo XXI. El artículo también analiza el colapso del sector petrolero, sus causas y consecuencias, incluida la reforma de los subsidios en diferentes sectores de la economía y compensar a los grupos de bajos ingresos de Venezuela.

The political model chosen in Colombia to offer public housing to the poorest, involves the market taken as a regulator of the effective access to houses, exclusively following the private property paradigm. Meanwhile, it is intended to constitutionally grant the right to housing ensured also as a political statement. At the same time, the right to the city progressively makes its way into the international scenery as a collective precept; this helps visualize the conflict between the economic reality of the model and its social implications. Therefore, the text contrasts the concepts of private property, social utility; individualism, collectivism; and constitutional framework, supply and demand laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document assesses the performance of SISBEN as instrument for targeting health insurance for the poor, RS, since it was created after Law 100 of 1993. Evidence suggests that targeting of health insurance based on Viejo SISBEN for years 1997 and 2003 was acceptable. In addition, preliminary evidence available for 2007 shows that the introduction of Nuevo SISBEN corrected several of the limitations of Viejo SISBEN, improving the targeting of RS. On the other hand, we analyze the effects of households' strategic response to SISBEN surveyors and find that the better off households benefit more of it, making of strategic response a regressive tool that allows close to one fifth of RS beneficiaries to manage to get included even though they are not actually eligible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]