Format:
graph. Darst, Lit. S. 150-160
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online Ressource
ISSN:
0120-3584
Content:
Following a typically “Hirschmanian” approach this article critically examines several policy premises to establish their real validity and relevance for actual policy design and implementation. These include “beliefs” and “expectations” on fiscal and redistributive matters as wellas on the developmental role of “elites”. The article argues that in thecase of Colombia social public expenditures largely fail to be redistributive because a substantial portion has been “captured” by supply monopolies and by “perverse” incentives which drive some of their governance structures. This “redistributive failure” takes place where it matters the most, namely, in assuring equality of initial conditions and opportunities, particularly for the poor. The main policy message is that the way to reconcile distributive justice objectives with the need to maintain economic incentives is through social expenditures that effectively deliver that equality of initial opportunities. This initial equality is what provides political legitimacy to final outcomes. Hence, there is no dichotomy between development and distributive justice. What needs to be reconciled are individual incentives and interests, onthe one hand, with incentives in the political and collective markets, on the other. More than a resource restriction condition Colombia faces an incentive compatibility political economy challenge. (Desarrollo y Sociedad/ GIGA)
Content:
Siguiendo un enfoque “Hirschmaniano” este artículo examina críticamente varios postulados para establecer su verdadera validez conceptual y su consistencia con las reformas que serian deseables. Se cuestionan “creencias” y “expectativas” sobre temas fiscales, redistributivos y sobre el papel de las “elites”. Para el caso de Colombia se argumenta que gran parte del gasto social, por haber sido “capturado”, por monopolios de oferta y por una estructura perversa de incentivos, es poco redistributivo; donde es mas critico que lo sea, a saber, en generar igualdad de oportunidades iniciales. La tesis central es que la ruta para encontrar una compatibilidad de incentivos entre la justicia distributiva, de una parte, y la eficiencia económica, de otra, es a través de asegurar igualdad de oportunid
Note:
Enthält: Kommentar von Daniel Mejía, S. 161-163
In:
Desarrollo y sociedad, Bogotá, 1979, (2008), 62, Seite 117-160, 0120-3584
In:
year:2008
In:
number:62
In:
pages:117-160
Language:
English
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Spanish
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