OECD Development Centre Working Papers
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.
- ISSN: 18151949 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18151949
Making Reform Happen in Colombia
The Process of Regional Transfer Reform
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, political economy, regional transfer, policy making process
JEL:
H11: Public Economics / Structure and Scope of Government / Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government;
P16: Economic Systems / Capitalist Systems / Capitalist Systems: Political Economy;
D72: Microeconomics / Analysis of Collective Decision-Making / Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior;
H71: Public Economics / State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations / State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue;
D78: Microeconomics / Analysis of Collective Decision-Making / Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
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