Construyendo lo global

Los procesos de integración de los mercados de bienes y servicios exigen a las economías mayor productividad en el uso de los factores productivos, así como un análisis detallado de los efectos sociales y ambientales del crecimiento. En ese orden de ideas, en la actualidad tanto el diseño de políticas públicas, como el direccionamiento estratégico de las empresas demanda de los diferentes actores una visión integral sobre los factores socioeconómicos que explican la competitividad de las empresas y el desarrollo económico y social de los países.

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

Includes correspondance, literary works, philosophical and political essays and reports presented to the Colombian Congress.

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...