Sunday, February 20, 2011

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Kenneth Rogoff Wins German Bank's 2010 Basic Environmental Regulatory Instruments



macroeconomist Noted Dr. Kenneth Rogoff, won German bank Prize in Financial Economics, 2010.
"for pioneering contributions to finance and macroeconomics" were the terms that defined the work of Professor Rogoff, who now teaches at Harvard University.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/harvard-s-kenneth-rogoff-wins-deutsche-bank-economics-prize-worth-68-200.html
Professor Kenneth Rogoff, born in 1953, received as Economist at Yale University and then his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been director of economic research of the International Monetary Fund until 2003.
One of the written documents that have been taken into account so that the German Bank granted the award was "IS DIFFERENT THIS TIME", which was written in conjunction with the renowned economist Dr. Carmen M. Reinhart.

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regulatory instruments for tax purposes of extractive companies , we can lump them into two (2) fundamental.
The first environmental policy instruments to appear were the so-called rules of command and control ( Command & Control) those whose legal approach, are the most widely used in environmental regulation.
This instrument provides a set of rules that producers pollution are obliged to comply (Mandate), which seeks to ensure environmental quality standards, such as setting limits on the amount of emissions, the characterization of intermediate products and / or final and pollution levels permissive and industrial processes in the production and decontamination. Along with this, it develops a monitoring system to check for possible errors by the polluters (Control), which should generate economic sanctions and legal.
Some of these rules are: 1 .-
pollutant emission or operating standards for setting maximum levels of substances pollutants that can be emitted to the environment. 2 .-
Control on the maximum concentration allowed pollution. 3 .-
Norms on products, aimed at establishing appropriate characteristics of products and services from the point of view. 4 .-
Standards design technology to improve production technology and introduce standards of decontamination. 5 .-
Preventive Norms, which allows the planning regulating the conditions of habitability , land use, noise levels, etc..

The second instrument economic or market appears when it is found that the technical efficiency of command and control instruments ( Command & Control) contrasts with the very objectives of the object to be regulated This aims for more flexible instruments that use economic incentives to modify behavior environmental operators.
Although several types of economic instruments for environmental policy, we can group them as follows:
- taxes,
- the markets for emission allowances
- subsidies.
1 .- taxes, environmental tax is a tax-order payment to be made by economic agents emitting pollutants substances, which can be fixed or variable, from a minimum allowable emissions and proportionately this, whose purpose is to affect behavior of agents to reduce the level of environmental degradation occurred (regardless of the fate of the taxes collected).
2 .- The emission rights markets, is creating a market in which traders can buy and sell permits (rights) associated environmental degradation. Basically
(although as we shall see there are other alternatives), the regulator sets an overall limit on emissions and, according to this limit, divided among the various pollutants the rights to emit a certain amount of pollutant and sets a period of time (usually one year) during which they will be able to trade those rights. After completion of this term, polluters must submit a number of allowances equivalent to their emissions during the period. There are several types of permits such as:
- For the type of permit, which distinguishes between exchange markets emission permits and the trading markets relative concentrations of pollution .
- By the nature of the market, here markets are distinguished in which the state controller delivers rights between polluters and markets pollutants, which generate their own rights, from reduction of pollution own.
- By the definition of property rights, in markets that are allocated free permits to polluters , this involves the allocation of property rights environmental polluters to , further markets in which society assigns property rights, auctioned permits among polluters for society.
- For exchange rules. Where we exchange markets one by one and markets in which the exchange rate depends on the location of polluter.
3 .- Grants, here the State regulator, is who pays a "subsidy" to the agent polluter to stop polluting. This contribution can be used by the polluter agent to cover the cost of the infrastructure needed to decontaminate production process. Obviously this is contrary to the rule "polluter pays."
As we see, not necessarily regulation is detrimental to productive economic processes, but contribute to a better assessment of the companies using them to reduce polluting industrial processes .

Monday, February 14, 2011

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Fighting Corruption : Education and Development. Challenge to Peru in 2011


Corruption, has as one of its bases to poor schooling, as poor integration of education and ethical education and training, is presented as an obstacle to economic development -social Peru.
The human factor as a priority of the production, assessment of costs and revenues and the importance of investment in education becomes relevant in the mid-twentieth century , Gary Becker (1959), TW Schultz (1961), among others). For economists, the inclusion of the education factor, starts from the consideration human capital in models of growth and development as befits Solow (1956) and Swan (1956), in this first set of models, the only source of growth was the increase in productive capacity by increasing the factors based on marginal theory of diminishing returns.
Much more recently, growth models Uzawa (1965) and Phelps (1966), in which Uzawa makes two basic assumptions: a.
- The work can be divided into productive and educationally . The former is used in production, the second includes "teaching staff" permanently separated from the productive sector (teaching) and "personal learning", whose purpose is to join the production.
b. - The growth rate of technical progress of the work is a concave and increasing the proportion of the total workforce dedicated to the education sector. Then graphically means is below its tangent line at any of your points, obviously in accordance with the law of diminishing marginal returns.
For E. Phelps, his pioneering work are aimed at finding a technological function can be incorporated into the Solow model . Phelps , interprets the term representative technical progress A (t) a function of the workforce for research and development, whose purpose is to create conditions for faster technical progress.
eliminating the diminishing returns assumption, but considering that growth tends to be endogenous Romer (1986), Aghion - Howitt (1992), Grossman - Helpman (1991), using imperfectly competitive markets, so you can create externalities within the same model (endogenous ), which enhance the appreciation of the concept of economic growth in those years.
1991, Sergio Rebelo AK model made . In this model, the production function is linear in the single factor of production: capital (K). Thus, this production function has a dual property of constant returns to scale and constant returns. By 1992, there is the extended model Solow, better known as the model of Mankiw - Romer - Weil , which includes three factors of production: physical capital, labor and human capital, including human capital being accumulated over time.
But all this a historical introduction on the development of theories of economic growth which finally shows that the "human capital" is an important cumulative factor of production is for reference article written by international commentators Andrés Oppenheimer , in his article: "The Decade of America America? "which indicates that Peru and other emerging countries have to take this time of booming profits to spend over their natural resources to investment in education and instruction for development of its population, that is the only way to achieve sustainable growth and finally social and economic development, avoiding biases that exist in our country and other Latin American countries .
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/% C2% BFladecadadeamericalatina?-647 124-columna.html
According to this article, the ECLAC indicates that Latin American has increased its reliance on raw material from 27% to 39%, leaving aside the importance of developing its manufacturing industry, similar to the views expressed by the Guru of Marketing and Competitiveness M. Porter , which indicates that Peru is on the way to true development, but we are in a boom phase due to real growth in countries such as China, India and Brazil, if are strengthening and developing their industries, based on cheap raw materials from Peru and other emerging exporters primary.
To World Bank officials, not the number of schools and years of what most impact on economic development, but the quality of education.
For authors such as Luis Rubio Mayoral, University of Sevilla , education is a pillar of economic development, says: " no doubt that education contributes to economic development "
http://www.uned.es/educacionXX1/pdfs/09-02.pdf
In a study of the ECLAC in 2009, mentions the following:
" substantial investments are needed and political efforts, particularly in the short term, to develop human resources better and in an additional amount of volume required by demand. Such efforts should not be isolated. costs for public universities be a scientist or a high-level technical or creating the conditions for they can perform cutting edge research are high and rising, so that cooperation to create, maintain and develop systems of science and technology becomes a national and regional need, which requires the coordinated work between communities and institutions scientific American countries and between governments, scientific communities, representatives and industry groups in each country. So far, though there are undoubtedly inter-American cooperation mechanisms , scientific collaboration has not been widely used to strengthen national innovation systems (Ortega, 1998). "

One of the advances in the educational process in Peru, but very light and warm in their implementation has been in recent years, the teacher evaluation process and the release of the education sector politicized groups, which under flags anarchic, entrenched in the self-styled SUTEP , holding the class of teachers in low conditions life and no possible future, due to inadequate and outdated "models" of education advocated by groups politicized. Perhaps the only way to reposition the teacher Peruvian conditions of professional competitiveness is the meritocracy , although many "teachers" are outside the process, but again this is still a warm process.