tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post7407485415442545698..comments2023-10-31T05:41:21.245-05:00Comments on Alejandro Gaviria: CongestiónAlejandro Gaviriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08910006598161301475noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-88516279574348848202011-12-11T02:19:51.040-05:002011-12-11T02:19:51.040-05:00David Cortés: ¿de modo que Petro no era de la dire...David Cortés: ¿de modo que Petro no era de la dirección del M-19, o que el asalto no fue pagado por Escobar, o que no se contemplaba asesinar a los secuestrados a los que se tomaba como rehenes en un delito atroz de por sí?<br /><br />Colombia produce tal cantidad de quimeras, de monstruos atroces, que los canallas más inverosímiles son al mismo tiempo unos imbéciles de chiste. ¡Hasta creen que uno se va a desanimar por sus insultos!Ruiz_Seniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248545846005684122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-42977850579022298782011-12-10T18:14:46.837-05:002011-12-10T18:14:46.837-05:00Para el comentario anterior: Demuestre su último p...Para el comentario anterior: Demuestre su último párrafo con argumentos y hechos y con gusto no será considerado como <i>troll</i>David Cortéshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18309543912244417581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-53557797319636122052011-12-10T18:12:59.862-05:002011-12-10T18:12:59.862-05:00Este comentario ha sido eliminado por el autor.David Cortéshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18309543912244417581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-82886752493986709392011-12-10T17:07:45.092-05:002011-12-10T17:07:45.092-05:00Anónimo 13.32 Bueno, no sé de dónde saca que yo pr...Anónimo 13.32 Bueno, no sé de dónde saca que yo pretendo que haya una opinión pública unánime. Éste es un término falaz, la sociedad sólo puede vivir a partir de cierta unanimidad (se deben aplicar las leyes, no se debe comer carne humana, uno no debe aparearse con su madre, etc.), pero yo por el contrario, respecto a la opinión prácticamente unánime de la prensa a favor de crímenes monstruosos como la condena a Plazas Vega o el encarcelamiento de Arias, planteo la discrepancia.<br /><br />Son grados de unanimidad. Según el grado de humanización hay quien discutiría si el incesto o el canibalismo, o el asesinato ritual, son deseables. Colombia está cerca de todo eso, los criminales mandan, ahí tiene a Petro, asesino que encargó matar a los magistrados aliado con Pablo Escobar, al que el dueño de este blog adula sin rubor.Ruiz_Seniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248545846005684122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-57353141740603204962011-12-10T13:32:27.301-05:002011-12-10T13:32:27.301-05:00Charlie : Una opinion unanime es un fenómeno muy i...Charlie : Una opinion unanime es un fenómeno muy inquietante, caracteristico de nuestra época moderna de cultura de masas. Destruye la vida social y personal, que se basa en el hecho que somos diferentes por naturaleza y por convicciones. Sostener diferentes opiniones y ser conscientes de que otras personas piensan de manera diferentesobre el mismo asunto nos protege de esa certeza casi divina de la que usted habla que bloquea toda discusión y reduce las relaciones sociales a las propias de un hormiguero.<br /><br />Jaime Ruiz: Una opinión publica unánime como la que usted pretende que se llegue a los problemas sociales colombianos tiende a eliminar fisicamente a los discrepenates como ha sucedido en la penosa historia politica colombiana, pues la unanimidad de masas no es el resultado del acuerdo, sino una expresion de fanatismo e histeria. En contraste con el ACUERDO, la unanimidad no se limita a ciertos objetos bien definidos, sino que se extiende como una infeccion por todos los asuntos que guardan entre si alguna relacion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-11292546252684250372011-12-10T11:51:25.171-05:002011-12-10T11:51:25.171-05:00Anonimo 11:54
Todas esas teorías del Progreso se l...Anonimo 11:54<br />Todas esas teorías del Progreso se las inventan los economistas cuando están en el campo de los ganadores.<br />Cuando un economista, que esta en el campo de los ganadores, se atreve a hablar contra el Sistema, le dan el premio Nobel.charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-71934257641281675042011-12-09T21:25:38.783-05:002011-12-09T21:25:38.783-05:00Los españoles perdieron las guerras de Independenc...Los españoles perdieron las guerras de Independencia del siglo XIX por falta de fondos.<br />La Reconquista que comenzaron a finales del siglo XX, a punta de chequera, también.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-47686988091893600492011-12-09T18:03:05.644-05:002011-12-09T18:03:05.644-05:00Jaime ruiz y el resto de la banda rechazan lo expu...Jaime ruiz y el resto de la banda rechazan lo expuesto por petro.<br /><br />Bah!, la oligarquía empieza a desesperarse; no chuparan mas sangre, sólo desean un crimen como el de alvaro gomez o jaime garzon, limpio y con un cuchillo ajenoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-45685861456162411672011-12-09T15:58:01.800-05:002011-12-09T15:58:01.800-05:00Llamativo, pero no sorprendente, que Alejandro no ...Llamativo, pero no sorprendente, que Alejandro no diga nada de las perlas de Petro respecto de la EEB.Ruiz_Seniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248545846005684122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-56547735312020168262011-12-09T11:54:20.168-05:002011-12-09T11:54:20.168-05:00A wide gap persists between talent and opportunity...A wide gap persists between talent and opportunity, a gap that policy is doing little to bridge. I found many highly talented children in poor communities. (One particularly memorable kid had me running for cover, posing math questions I could not answer, after I started quizzing him in math, a quiz he aced.) <br /><br />Despite abundant talent, these young adults mostly dream of becoming someday a schoolteacher or police constable. No better career pathway is visible to them, even to those who live cheek-by-jowl with rising industry. <br /><br />Raising a mass of people above poverty is a noble pursuit. But shouldn't individual capability also figure in these strategies? Imagine that someone like Einstein was born poor. Would raising him to day laborer count as notable success? <br /><br />Revising the objectives and strategy of poverty reduction is essential. Two parallel sets of anti-poverty policies are necessary. Waiting until after someone has fallen into poverty is hardly the only time when assistance should be provided. Preventive assistance must become the norm. In parallel, efforts must be made to substantially augment prospects for upward mobility. <br /><br />Learning from thousands of individual experiences, considering both escapes from and descent into poverty, this book presents an account of what should be done in both respects. The essence of the argument is summarized in the following equation: <br /><br />Poverty = frequent downward tugs + limited upward mobility <br /><br />Societies' progress against poverty will depend on how they remove or reduce downward tugs while simultaneously lifting the low glass ceiling under which too many poor individuals currently live. How both these objectives can be achieved in practice is discussed in One Illness Away with the help of many inspiring examples. <br /> <br /><br />***<br /><br />Anirudh Krishna holds a Ph.D. in Government (Cornell, 2000) and a Masters in Economics (Delhi, 1980). He is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Associate Dean for International Academic Programs at Sanford School of Public policy, Duke University. Krishna is author or co-author of five books and more than thirty peer-reviewed articles. Before turning to academia in 1996, Krishna worked for 14 years in the Indian Administrative Service, where he managed diverse initiatives related to rural and urban development. His most recent research project, reported in this book and conducted over seven years between 2001 and 2008, examines household poverty dynamics in five countries. Krishna received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2005 for the initial work, which has also influenced future plans of diverse development organizationsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-25833457366237888872011-12-09T11:54:12.469-05:002011-12-09T11:54:12.469-05:00Governments and donor agencies focus exclusively, ...Governments and donor agencies focus exclusively, however, on raising people out of poverty, blindsided to the parallel flows leading into poverty. Progress against poverty is marginal and becomes compromised: what is reduced with the help of policy gets restored as a result of events. <br /><br />There are many opportunities for preventing the growth of poverty. Multiple links in the chains of adverse events can be broken effectively, as the book shows. Where preventive assistance has been available, many fewer people are poor. If preventive assistance had been available on a wider scale, a third fewer people would be poor today. <br /><br />Different reasons are associated, respectively, with escaping poverty and becoming poor. Analyzing the life histories of thousands of people, such as Heera Gujar, who have become the new poor of the world, the first part of the book identifies reasons that commonly precipitate descents into poverty. Some among these reasons - particularly ill health and high health care costs - are common across regions and countries; others are more context-specific, requiring more decentralized remedies. <br /><br />The second part of the book looks at the reverse side of the poverty equation. How many people escaped poverty? Among them, how many became rich? <br /><br />The answer to the first of these questions is encouraging. Large numbers have risen and continue to rise out of poverty. But the second answer is disheartening: very few have become rich. <br /><br />Those who have risen out of poverty serve mostly as itinerant laborers, maids, gardeners, lorry loaders, street vendors, marginal farmers, and the like. Much more needs to be done, not just to raise the number of poverty escapes (which is important), but also to enhance the quality of individual lives (also important, but often ignored, because of planners' preoccupation with the aggregate statistics). <br /><br />Over and over, in interviews with poor mothers and fathers, I was reminded of one essential fact: poverty at the present time is not so hard to bear if future opportunities for one's children are visible and bright. But only too rarely have poor peoples' children become managers, doctors, professors, media personalities, or prize athletes. Not one among more than a hundred software engineers interviewed in Bangalore grew up in a poor household. <br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-72579312891851300112011-12-09T11:53:40.517-05:002011-12-09T11:53:40.517-05:00How do people become poor? Here is what Heera had ...How do people become poor? Here is what Heera had to state. <br /><br />The bad days began when my father fell ill about 18 years ago. They say he was stricken by TB [tuberculosis]. We took him several times to the district hospital, about 35 kilometers away. Each time we spent a considerable amount of money. We must have spent close to 25,000 rupees on his treatment, but to no avail. When my father died, we performed the customary death feast, spending another 10,000 rupees. We sold our cattle, and we also had to take out some loans. <br /><br />We worked harder in order to repay these debts. Then, about ten years ago, my wife fell seriously ill, and she has still not recovered. We borrowed more money to pay for her medical treatments. More than 20,000 rupees were spent for this purpose. It became hard to keep up with our debts. Somehow we could make do for another two or three years. Then the rains failed for three years in a row, and that was the end of the road for us. We sold our land. <br /><br />Now, my sons and I work as casual labor, earning whatever we can from one day to the next. On some days, we find work. On other days, there is nothing. <br /><br />No single cause accounts for Heera's descent into poverty. A combination of causes - a chain of adverse events - was involved. Other cases examined also show that people fall into poverty, not all at once, but by degrees. Multiple everyday events - illnesses, deaths, marriages, debts - combine to push people into poverty. Anyone can fall into poverty, and many do. <br /><br />The majority of those who experience descents remain persistently poor. Such avoidable large-scale misery can and should be prevented.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-35631348171910806442011-12-09T11:53:03.929-05:002011-12-09T11:53:03.929-05:00WHY PEOPLE BECOME POOR AND HOW THEY ESCAPE POVERTY...WHY PEOPLE BECOME POOR AND HOW THEY ESCAPE POVERTY <br /> <br /><br />By Anirudh Krishna <br /><br />***<br /><br />The Montréal Review, November 2011<br /><br /><br /><br />Is it possible to prevent or forestall poverty? How many among the poor of today were not born poor - but fell into poverty? How could their descents into poverty have been stemmed before they occurred? <br /><br />What about those who rise out of poverty? Do they only become marginally non-poor? Or have some actually become rich? <br /><br />Over six years, from 2001 to 2007, I explored these two sets of questions in four developing countries (India, Kenya, Uganda, and Peru) and one part of the United States, interviewing a total of 35,000 families. <br /><br />Not all of these families are poor, to be sure. Many have never been poor. Others escaped poverty. Still, a significant chunk was found to be poor in each context. They could not afford basic necessities, such as food, clothing, reliable shelter, education for their kids. <br /><br />Among the poor, more than one-third were not born to poverty. They became chronically poor within their lifetimes. Accounts such as the following were common to hear. <br /><br />We were among the more prosperous households of our village. We owned land. We also owned many heads of cattle. But things changed for the worse, and today we are among the poorest people in our village, the recipients of community handouts on religious holidays. <br /><br />Narrated by Heera Gujar, a farmer in India, this account of descent into poverty was saddening. But it was hardly peculiar or rare. No matter where I went, I encountered such instances. In richer communities and in poorer ones, in countries with faster and slower rates of economic growth, deep in the interior, but also in small towns and bustling capital cities, the problem of descent into poverty was widespread and serious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-55193157636337835472011-12-09T11:04:44.973-05:002011-12-09T11:04:44.973-05:00Recuerden que Jaime Ruiz es una banda; el premio ...Recuerden que Jaime Ruiz es una <b>banda; <b></b></b> el premio tienen que repartirlo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-33131295605604693082011-12-09T10:58:17.626-05:002011-12-09T10:58:17.626-05:00El bufón de bufones, el gran campeón, es el "...El bufón de bufones, el gran campeón, es el "Anárquico" Maldoror...<br /><br />Deberíamos hacer los premios "Blog de Alejandro Gaviria"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-64325416029185170812011-12-09T10:04:28.733-05:002011-12-09T10:04:28.733-05:00Hay 4 personajes que son, a su manera, los bufones...Hay 4 personajes que son, a su manera, los bufones del blog:<br /><br />1. Jaime Ruiz<br />2. Maldolor<br />3. Carolina Sanín<br />4. Geyshel NaranjoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-53214823724920030242011-12-09T10:02:53.644-05:002011-12-09T10:02:53.644-05:00Deberían condecorar al profesor de la Javeriana qu...Deberían condecorar al profesor de la Javeriana que renunció por la incapacidad e indiferencia de sus estudiantes. Ojalá que este acto de honestidad les sirva para reflexionar. ¿Qué están haciendo en una facultad de comunicación si no quieren aprender a escribir bien? <br />Si lo que quieren es convertirse en celebridades de TV, entonces que se empeloten. La fórmula es muy barata y todavía funciona, aunque no por mucho más tiempo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-4830135152979539762011-12-08T22:11:58.487-05:002011-12-08T22:11:58.487-05:00Este comentario ha sido eliminado por el autor.lelo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/06249444164503714091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-830305335910382902011-12-08T15:25:24.480-05:002011-12-08T15:25:24.480-05:00Maldoror: ¿Cuál es su "visión" del progr...Maldoror: ¿Cuál es su "visión" del progreso? Pongo la palabra entre comillas porque me parece que cualquier "visión" de cualquier cosa es casi que por definición antilibertaria. De ahí la curiosidad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-23995139335136901212011-12-08T14:11:50.272-05:002011-12-08T14:11:50.272-05:00Pero si alguien fuera a escribir la historia negra...<i>Pero si alguien fuera a escribir la historia negra de la contaminación, tendría que dedicarle un capitulo muy largo a la Unión Soviética y el socialismo en general.</i><br /><br />Totalmente cierto. Y quien escriba esa historia probablemente se asombrará al ver que el comunismo de los soviéticos tenía la misma o una muy similar, acrítica e ingenua visión del progreso que sus contrapartes occidentales capitalistas.Maldororhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06027498369391070528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-74350780826989671972011-12-08T13:50:07.970-05:002011-12-08T13:50:07.970-05:00A los bogotanos nos van a poner a manejar biciclet...A los bogotanos nos van a poner a manejar bicicleta, e ir a los bancos, universidades, trabajo al estilo "mockus".<br />Me imagino al sicario moral de jose obdulio moviéndose con agilidad dirigiendo una marcha (de hipocresía y engaño por supuesto) exigiendo la libertad del criminal plazas vega.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-69956281780350253732011-12-08T13:23:10.415-05:002011-12-08T13:23:10.415-05:00Lo que tiene la Acción de la Empresa de Energía en...Lo que tiene la Acción de la Empresa de Energía en picada no son las declaraciones de Petro. Es su parentesco con los bancos españoles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-48732311061656179412011-12-08T12:27:21.560-05:002011-12-08T12:27:21.560-05:00Enlazo una evaluación negativa (y polémica) de los...<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeetrapol/v_3a12_3ay_3a2005_3ai_3a3_3ap_3a279-287.htm" rel="nofollow">Enlazo una evaluación negativa (y polémica) de los peajes de Londres</a>.Alejandro Gaviriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910006598161301475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-53940246152249236232011-12-08T11:30:01.927-05:002011-12-08T11:30:01.927-05:00Es una consecuencia indeseable del progreso y de l...Es una consecuencia indeseable del progreso y de los excesos del capitalismo chino. Pero si alguien fuera a escribir la historia negra de la contaminación, tendría que dedicarle un capitulo muy largo a la Unión Soviética y el socialismo en general.Alejandro Gaviriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910006598161301475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21417826.post-30478239627384034382011-12-08T11:26:16.722-05:002011-12-08T11:26:16.722-05:00Un comentario final sobre la columna: los peajes n...Un comentario final sobre la columna: los peajes no van a solucionar el problema de la congestión. Son un componente de más una estrategia que tendrá que incluir una mejora sustancial del transporte público (esperemos que el SITP funcione), parquímetros (o aumentos del costo de parqueo en general) y más y mejores vías. Pero es un componente importante que no debería descartarse o rechazarse de entrada con arengas o mentiras.Alejandro Gaviriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910006598161301475noreply@blogger.com