NGO Education Survey

Budget and Social Expenditure

The aim of this Course is to provide the students a broad understanding of the State Budget and Social Expenditure. To understand essential fiscal policy issues is important for those people who work in public management as well as those who carry out research, analyze and propose public policies, since they are determinant issues in the global State functioning. It is expected that the students who have successfully passed the Course understand the State Budget management and be able to analyze public policies in general from the economic point of view, and the Social Expenditure in particular. The Course will be developed in five classes, one class per week. Two major issues will be studied: The Public Budget in a comprehensive way, and a link between the Budget and Social Policies. After an introduction to the process of the formulation of public policies, in the first meetings the Budget will be studied in detail (its legal framework, its relevance and the competences of the different actors that participate in the budgetary process, income and expenditure classifications, its formulation, approval, execution and assessment, etc.) and the microtaxation. Towards the end of the Course, the related contents will be addressed with an economic approach, the budgeting and the costing of social policies.

Income Distribution and Social Protection

The subject has the objective to provide basic knowledge for the analysis of the Argentine socio-economic inequality and the social protection system. The topic is addressed from a conceptual and empirical perspective, aimed to reflect upon the evolution of the income distribution and its determinants, the recent social policy trajectories and the distributive aspects of the social protection system (particularly, of the social security and the programs of conditioned monetary transfers).

Labour and Social Policy

The course proposes to reflect on the labour and social policy practice in Argentina in the light of the major approaches that from the Political Science and the Sociology account for these policies; the neo-corporatism and the salary coordination, and the theories on the Welfare State functioning. Thus, each meeting will combine a review of the major theoretical axes of the social and labour policy (in general, based on developed countries and Latin America), with a practical analysis of a specific social and labour policy for the Argentine case. Four axes will be developed: Income Policy/Collective Negotiation, Labour Formalization Policy, Social Policy and Pension Policy.

Public Policy for Regulated Sectors

This subject aims that participants know the modern regulation fundamentals of economic activities as a public policy issue. The regulation topic will be addressed from a modern economic perspective, that is to say, with emphasis on the aspects of the market structure, information, incentives and efficiency that are central to the subject. In addition to the traditional topics of the subject, two relevant current topics have been incorporated: regulation of the media industry and of the internet. The course is designed in a way so that theoretical aspects are balanced with the application of principles.