Political and international relations

  • Normative analysis of public policies

    Normative analysis of public policies

    On 21 December 2005, the Foundation signed a research agreement with Professor Francisco Beltrán Adell, from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid, with the aim of analysing the social reality and Spanish and European policies in a global context, by means of the analysis of the...

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  • CYD Report

    CYD Report

    On 1 October 2003, the President of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Rafael del Pino y Moreno, and the President of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo (Fundación CYD), Ana Patricia Botín Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, signed a collaboration agreement for the annual publication of the "CYD Report". This...

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  • The future of work

    The future of work

    The Rafael del Pino Foundation commissioned Analistas Socio-Políticos to convene and coordinate a meeting in which experts on this issue, either because of their academic or research occupation, or because of their closer knowledge, as employers or workers' representatives, could put their ideas together. The meeting was held on 29...

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  • The quality of public debate in Spain

    The quality of public debate in Spain

    Spain has lived decades with very high unemployment rates compared to our benchmark countries, which has probably had to do with both the substance of the policies applied (which tend to promote incremental institutional changes, or different allocations of resources) and the way in which the issue has been debated, typical of a culture of...

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  • The problem of youth employment

    The problem of youth employment

    Spain has lived decades with very high unemployment rates compared to our benchmark countries, which has probably had to do with both the substance of the policies applied (which tend to promote incremental institutional changes, or different allocations of resources) and the way in which the issue has been debated, typical of a culture of...

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  • The rise and fall of cities

    The rise and fall of cities

    This paper analyses the population dynamics of cities in different countries during the period 1800-2000. It documents three novel empirical facts that characterise this process.

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