Consideration of the roles to be played by the public and private sectors in a country's development strategy naturally leads to an analysis of the public sector's main orientations regarding both its own actions and the establishment of a regulatory framework for the performance of certain types of activities. These orientations are expressed through public policies, i.e., the courses of action followed by the public sector in pursuance of a more or less well-defined objective. The administration, made up of the various government ministries and departments, is what provides the ins…
This article argues that the ECLAC proposal for changing production patterns with social equity should take account of the cultural features of the region's societies. It therefore examines the ECLAC proposal from. a cultural standpoint, with special attention to the links between citizenship, economic development and modernity (section II);. It then analyses the processes of internationalization of culture, the relation between cultural identity and citizenship, and the impact of the processes of internationalization of culture on the region (section III);. It goes on to examine one of t…
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El presente documento se orienta al análisis de las denominadas políticas de recursos hídricos , para lo cual se describe en principio qué son, para qué sirven y qué las caracteriza. A continuación se exponen las tendencias en materia de formulación de políticas de aguas que se registran actualmente en algunos países de la región. Se distinguen las políticas de intención de las de ejecución y se establecen los elementos que las caracterizan: reglas básicas, principios de organización y procedimientos fundamentales.
Luego se destaca la importancia de conciliar las característ…