OECD Development Centre Working Papers

ISSN :
1815-1949 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/18151949
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The OECD Development Centre links OECD members with developing and emerging economies and fosters debate and discussion to seek creative policy solutions to emerging global issues and development challenges. This series of working papers is intended to disseminate the OECD Development Centre’s research findings rapidly among specialists in the field concerned. These papers are generally available in the original English or French, with a summary in the other language.
 

Making Reform Happen in Colombia

The Process of Regional Transfer Reform You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Sebastián Nieto Parra1, Mauricio Olivera2
Author Affiliations
  • 1: Institut d’Etudes Politiques, France

  • 2: Fedesarrollo, Colombia

Publication Date
31 Jan 2012
Bibliographic information
No.:
309
Pages
39
DOI
10.1787/5k9gs20l5x0x-en

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This paper studies the interaction between different actors in the policy-making process of fiscal transfer reform in Colombia. To analyse this reform, we use the "life cycle of reform" framework. In that context, we follow critical phases in the reform process: planning, dialogue and adoption, and implementation and sustainability stages. This paper shows that the economic context and institutional factors, such as the new political structure for interactions between agents after the 1991 Constitution, were fundamental in achieving the reform. Moreover, it confirms previous studies showing that communication and compensation strategies play a key role in the approval of reforms. When the "sustainability" of the reform is analysed, this study shows that there is a need to improve the co-ordination of public policies at different levels of government.
Keywords:
reform, regional transfer, policy making process, political economy
JEL Classification:
  • D72: Microeconomics / Analysis of Collective Decision-Making / Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
  • D78: Microeconomics / Analysis of Collective Decision-Making / Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation
  • H11: Public Economics / Structure and Scope of Government / Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
  • H71: Public Economics / State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations / State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
  • P16: Economic Systems / Capitalist Systems / Political Economy