Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

This study constructs a successive Cournot model to investigate the possibility that a separated upstream input supplier can solely sell the intermediate good to a separated downstream manufacturer through an exclusive contract in the presence of a vertically integrated rival. We find that the separated firms are indifferent on whether to sign the exclusive contract or not if the downstream party is less efficient than the integrated firm in producing the final good. Next, the separated firms with an efficient downstream party are indifferent between signing or not signing, willing to sign, and not willing to sign the exclusive contract if the upstream cost differential is relatively low, medium, and high, respectively. Finally, signing such an exclusive contract does not increase consumer surplus and social welfare

Las Estrategias de Desarrollo Regional (ERD) son el principal instrumento estratégico de alineamiento de los proyectos de inversión regional. Sin embargo, entre los actores relacionados con la planificación regional se presume que existiría una percepción crítica sobre su capacidad directriz en la inversión regional, debido a factores políticos, institucionales y metodológicos. Para explorar esta validez de esta percepción, en este estudio de tipo exploratorio, se investiga la percepción de la relación de las ERD con proyectos del Fondo de Desarrollo Regional (FNDR, según actores públicos en las regiones de Valparaíso, Biobío y Los Lagos. Se realiza un análisis de contenido de las entrevistas a actores relacionadas con el ciclo de proyectos de inversión, lo que indicaría  dos tendencias: una percepción positiva que indicaría un alineamiento de proyectos FNDR con la ERD, por la acción de las Divisiones de Planificación y Desarrollo (DIPLADE) de los Gobiernos Regionales (GORE) y otra percepción de falta de alineamiento proyecto-ERD, por el localismo impreso por los Alcaldes a sus proyectos municipales y la injerencia de los Consejos Regionales (CORES) que responden a sus clientelas electorales provinciales. También los actores entrevistados perciben en las ERD falencias menores de diseño y de monitoreo y evaluación.

This paper presents the results of a review of the institutional approach through intercultural perspectives in the execution of three programs in the fields of health, education, and social development in the region of La Araucanía, Chile. It is proposed as an analysis of official sources and personal interviews a critically review for implementation of interculturality concept in PESPI, PEIB and INDAB, applied mainly to the Mapuche population in that region. It is concluded that in the intercultural approach proposed by the Chilean State there is an economic, social, political, and knowledge asymmetry between State and the indigenous peoples, evidenced in public policies of assistance and, therefore, based on a functional interculturalism which promotes a dialogue without problematizing its conditions.  

The Chilean State started with a process of modernization about this management and people development, led for the National Direction of Civil Service, does not consider local governments yet emerging a space of research. The objective of this study is to design an implementation plan of "People Management Model of Central State Administration" for the Health Department of Huechuraba Council, for which is necessary to do a diagnostic on build an implementation plan with strategic objectives and actions in line to the local council reality.

This study is part of the social reintegration of homeless people. The implementation process of the first stage of the "housing with support for homeless people" program was analyzed, a model of North American origin, replicated in Chile in 2019. The objective is to analyze, classify and define the strategies carried out by the implementers. A qualitative methodology with a narrative approach was used, developing the history of how the events arose at a given time. Among the main findings, it was established that when public programs are replicated, they tend to favor rigid designs, with the use of formal or deliberate strategies prevailing over sporadic or emergent strategies.

This study explores the sociodemographic factors associated with the use of contraceptives among married or cohabiting reproductive age women in a rural sector of Haiti in 2017, using the information extracted from demographic and health surveys. Minded variables were age, religion of division, education, fertility preference, and wealth index. It carried out a bivariate analysis performing a chi-square test to explore the relationship between selected sociodemographic factors and contraceptive use, and a binary logistic regression model to know the adjusted effects of the covariates. The results recommend efforts for increasing the level of education among the poorest community in rural areas of Haiti: education and information services are especially necessary for adolescents and young people.

The present article analyses Law N° 21.040 which creates the Public Education System. That focus on the cycles or stages of the publics policies and its most relevant characteristics. It recognises the main problems to be an input for its debate and legislative improvement.

Chile has a series of problems in terms of innovation, for instance the low spending in Research & Development (R&D), but also the small proportion of the spent carried out by firms and the poor institutional framework. Currently there is a National Innovation System where different government agencies participate, but it has certain deficiencies. A series of changes are proposed that could help to improve the Innovation System, science the incorporation of Regional Governments and City Halls to the System and improvements in the way in which the Fondo Innovación para la Competitividad (FIC) are allocated. It ends with a series of conclusions and recommendations.

Durante la primavera del 2019, fue común la destrucción de monumentos en manifestaciones ligadas al «descontento social» en Chile. Desde el fin de la conquista no hay registros de ese tipo de actos. Desde el «Estallido Social», más de dos mil monumentos resultaron con algún tipo de impacto. Es importante entender la conceptualización que la legislación vigente da a los monumentos y también responder cuáles son los desafíos para el municipio en relación con la temática de los monumentos, asimismo, algunos lineamientos en relación con la consideración de Plaza Baquedano como frontera social. Para dar un sustento teórico a la problemática se utilizarán algunos principios del «deconstruccionismo», debido a que las estructuras, instituciones y modelos sociales permanentemente se reinventan (Hueman, 2003).  

Based on data from INEGI (2022) on items in Mexico, we analyze the survival behavior of various companies. The analysis shows that only three companies survive more than 30 years, and 85% of the total survive 25. Even, the level of crime on companies is one of the reasons for the non-positioning and creation of new companies, particularly MSMEs. Additionally, we analyze how crime affects that positioning of MSMEs, decreasing supply of products, implying higher inflation in northern areas of the country. Finally, we consider about the action of government through security policies to mitigate the closures, increasing the supply and diminishing inflation rates.