Research Network Working Paper, 408. Geography and economic development in Colombia / Fabio Sánchez Torres 

Público ISBD Título de serie: Research Network Working Paper, 408 Título : Geography and economic development in Colombia : a municipal approach Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Fabio Sánchez Torres ; Jairo Núñez Méndez Editorial: Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo Fecha de publicación: 2000 Número de páginas: 78 p Idioma : Inglés Temas: BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO COLOMBIA CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO GEOGRAFIA MODELOS ECONOMETRICOS Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: The object of this paper is to determine the relationship between geographical variables and income per capita, income per capita growth, population density and population growth in Colombian municipalities. In order to carry out econometric estimations at the municipal level we constructed a set of geographical variables based on soil, climate and road maps. We obtained some other geographical variables from the Colombian Institute of Geography (IGAC) homogeneous zone statistics. We found that geography affects both the level of municipal income per capita and its growth, being responsible for between 36% and 47% of the variance in municipal income per capita, and between 35% and 40% of the variance in municipal income per capita growth. It was established that, among the geographic variables, distance to domestic markets and soil type exercise the greatest influence on income per capita and its growth. Furthermore, geographical variables seem to be more significant for poor municipalities than rich ones. In poor municipalities, geography is responsible for between 25% and 32% of income per capita variance, and between 24% and 27% of income per capita growth variance. In contrast, in rich municipalities, geography is less important, being responsible for between 18% and 25% of income per capita variance and between 16% and 17% of income per capita growth variance. Thus, geography affects income and income growth via the productivity of the land, the availability of natural resources (such as water and rivers), the presence of tropical diseases, and agglomeration. Although geography influences the fate of a region, that is not the end of the story. Human factors, both public policy and private intervention, also play an important role. Education, infrastructure and more efficient public institutions can boost regional economic growth, and can help poor regions to overcome the poverty trap of low income and low economic growth. En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788036 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=72901 Research Network Working Paper, 408. Geography and economic development in Colombia : a municipal approach [texto impreso] / Fabio Sánchez Torres ; Jairo Núñez Méndez . - Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2000 . - 78 p. Idioma : Inglés Temas: BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO COLOMBIA CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO GEOGRAFIA MODELOS ECONOMETRICOS Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: The object of this paper is to determine the relationship between geographical variables and income per capita, income per capita growth, population density and population growth in Colombian municipalities. In order to carry out econometric estimations at the municipal level we constructed a set of geographical variables based on soil, climate and road maps. We obtained some other geographical variables from the Colombian Institute of Geography (IGAC) homogeneous zone statistics. We found that geography affects both the level of municipal income per capita and its growth, being responsible for between 36% and 47% of the variance in municipal income per capita, and between 35% and 40% of the variance in municipal income per capita growth. It was established that, among the geographic variables, distance to domestic markets and soil type exercise the greatest influence on income per capita and its growth. Furthermore, geographical variables seem to be more significant for poor municipalities than rich ones. In poor municipalities, geography is responsible for between 25% and 32% of income per capita variance, and between 24% and 27% of income per capita growth variance. In contrast, in rich municipalities, geography is less important, being responsible for between 18% and 25% of income per capita variance and between 16% and 17% of income per capita growth variance. Thus, geography affects income and income growth via the productivity of the land, the availability of natural resources (such as water and rivers), the presence of tropical diseases, and agglomeration. Although geography influences the fate of a region, that is not the end of the story. Human factors, both public policy and private intervention, also play an important role. Education, infrastructure and more efficient public institutions can boost regional economic growth, and can help poor regions to overcome the poverty trap of low income and low economic growth. En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788036 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=72901

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Research Network Working Paper, 434. Teenage childbearing in Latin American countries / Carmen Elisa Florez 

Público ISBD Título de serie: Research Network Working Paper, 434 Título : Teenage childbearing in Latin American countries Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Carmen Elisa Florez ; Jairo Núñez Méndez Editorial: Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo Fecha de publicación: 2001 Número de páginas: 97 p Idioma : Inglés Temas: AMERICA LATINA ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS ASPECTOS SOCIALES BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO EMBARAZO EN ADOLESCENCIA Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most Latin American and Caribbean countries, teenage fertility has not changed at the same pace or in the same direction. Given that early childbearing is deleterious for both mother and child, we describe differentials in the levels and trends in teenage childbearing and analyze its proximate and socioeconomic determinants. We used Demographic and Health Surveys data from six LAC countries for which data are available for the second half of the 1990s: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Peru. Teenage fertility trends indicate different patterns of change across countries by area of residence. However, in most countries teenage fertility has increased in rural areas but declined or remained constant in urban areas. Different contributions of marriage, proper use of family planning methods, and premarital births to teenage fertility behavior are reflected in differentials in unmarried parenthood across countries. Socioeconomic determinants are analyzed through simple logit model, multilevel analysis, and continuous-time hazard rate models. These analyses improve on prior research on LAC countries by including contextual/regional factors, isolating the effects into differentials in sexual activity and rates of childbearing, and by comparing the socioeconomic determinants of the timing of first birth and premarital birth. This research demonstrates that the effect of socioeconomic variables on the rate of childbearing can act through the timing of initial sexual intercourse (such as education, socioeconomic conditions of the households and area or residence) or through the timing of first birth (such as socialization in a female-headed family, availability - cceptability - use of family planning, and regional - country conditions, such as cultural and inherent characteristics). En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788039 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=73031 Research Network Working Paper, 434. Teenage childbearing in Latin American countries [texto impreso] / Carmen Elisa Florez ; Jairo Núñez Méndez . - Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2001 . - 97 p. Idioma : Inglés Temas: AMERICA LATINA ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS ASPECTOS SOCIALES BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO EMBARAZO EN ADOLESCENCIA Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: In spite of the rapid fertility transition experienced by most Latin American and Caribbean countries, teenage fertility has not changed at the same pace or in the same direction. Given that early childbearing is deleterious for both mother and child, we describe differentials in the levels and trends in teenage childbearing and analyze its proximate and socioeconomic determinants. We used Demographic and Health Surveys data from six LAC countries for which data are available for the second half of the 1990s: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Peru. Teenage fertility trends indicate different patterns of change across countries by area of residence. However, in most countries teenage fertility has increased in rural areas but declined or remained constant in urban areas. Different contributions of marriage, proper use of family planning methods, and premarital births to teenage fertility behavior are reflected in differentials in unmarried parenthood across countries. Socioeconomic determinants are analyzed through simple logit model, multilevel analysis, and continuous-time hazard rate models. These analyses improve on prior research on LAC countries by including contextual/regional factors, isolating the effects into differentials in sexual activity and rates of childbearing, and by comparing the socioeconomic determinants of the timing of first birth and premarital birth. This research demonstrates that the effect of socioeconomic variables on the rate of childbearing can act through the timing of initial sexual intercourse (such as education, socioeconomic conditions of the households and area or residence) or through the timing of first birth (such as socialization in a female-headed family, availability - cceptability - use of family planning, and regional - country conditions, such as cultural and inherent characteristics). En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788039 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=73031

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Research Network Working Paper, 484. The impact of public and private job training in Colombia / Carlos Medina 

Público ISBD Título de serie: Research Network Working Paper, 484 Título : The impact of public and private job training in Colombia Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Carlos Medina ; Jairo Núñez Méndez Editorial: Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo Fecha de publicación: 2005 Número de páginas: 58 p Idioma : Inglés Temas: BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO CAPACITACION LABORAL COLOMBIA FORMACION PROFESIONAL Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: The authors present matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia. They estimate propensity scores by controlling for the variety of personal and socioeconomic background variables of those individuals. The effect of training, measured by the mean impact of the treatment on the treated, shows that: (i) for youths, no institution has a significant impact in the short or long run except private institutions for males; the scope of the data, however, limits the reliability of the result; (ii) for adult males, neither SENA nor the other public institutions have a significant impact in the short or long run; (iii) for SENA-trained adult females there are positive but not significant impacts in the short run and greater and close to significant effects in the long run. All other public institutions have a higher impact that is significant in the long-run; (iv) for adults trained at private institutions there are large and significant effects in both the short and long run, but for adult males in the short run the effects are smaller and only barely significant. In addition, neither short nor long courses provided by SENA seem to have a significant impact on earnings. In general, females benefit more from both short and long courses than males. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis shows that under the assumption of direct unitary costs equal to SENA, private institutions are more profitable than public institutions, which are in turn more profitable than SENA. En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788108 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=72934 Research Network Working Paper, 484. The impact of public and private job training in Colombia [texto impreso] / Carlos Medina ; Jairo Núñez Méndez . - Washington : Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2005 . - 58 p. Idioma : Inglés Temas: BANCO INTERAMERICANO DE DESARROLLO CAPACITACION LABORAL COLOMBIA FORMACION PROFESIONAL Clasificación: 338.9 Resumen: The authors present matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia. They estimate propensity scores by controlling for the variety of personal and socioeconomic background variables of those individuals. The effect of training, measured by the mean impact of the treatment on the treated, shows that: (i) for youths, no institution has a significant impact in the short or long run except private institutions for males; the scope of the data, however, limits the reliability of the result; (ii) for adult males, neither SENA nor the other public institutions have a significant impact in the short or long run; (iii) for SENA-trained adult females there are positive but not significant impacts in the short run and greater and close to significant effects in the long run. All other public institutions have a higher impact that is significant in the long-run; (iv) for adults trained at private institutions there are large and significant effects in both the short and long run, but for adult males in the short run the effects are smaller and only barely significant. In addition, neither short nor long courses provided by SENA seem to have a significant impact on earnings. In general, females benefit more from both short and long courses than males. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis shows that under the assumption of direct unitary costs equal to SENA, private institutions are more profitable than public institutions, which are in turn more profitable than SENA. En línea: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=788108 Enlace permanente a este registro: https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=72934

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