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Una raccolta di poesie, cyberpunk e schizoanalitica, molto provocatoria e sperimentale, strutturata su diversi livelli e piani intersecanti, ibrida, confusionaria. Rappresenta il tentativo di riflettere, in maniera poetica - forse l'unica maniera possibile - su questo inizio di millennio, tra paure apocalittiche e l'agghiacciante rivelazione, già in atto, della fine dell'uomo.

This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to reduce the cost incurred by public officials and citizens when monitoring the use of royalties. The main finding is that after the release of MapaRegalías , public investment projects financed with royalties showed an average increase in efficiency of execution of 7.996 percentage points

This paper documents the effects of an intervention on knowledge sharing, in which information embedded in efficient private organizations is used to improve bureaucratic procedures of public agencies. In particular, it analyzes the impact of the Knowledge for Results (K4R) program on the efficiency of public agencies in Colombia. The findings of the study indicate that K4R is associated with a statistically significant improvement in operational efficiency. The paper presents two examples of K4R. In the first example, K4R reduced the time that local ombudsman offices need to deal with incoming petitions from citizens. In the second example, K4R reduced the time that oncology patients spend in an emergency clinic until they are discharged from the hospital. These time reductions are quantitatively relevant and imply efficiency gains of between 25 and 40 percent relative to pre-program levels.