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  Globalization and De-globalization

  No. 87 (2024)

  The Central American region is navigating between challenges and opportunities, a confluence marked by a complex matrix of lags and vulnerabilities that contributed to the lost decade of the 1980s and that persist with new nuances in an increasingly complex context.
  With the long-awaited arrival of the Esquipulas Peace Accords in 1987, the arrival of social hope derived from a democratic era, whose dawn augured the capacity to channel differences through dialogue, negotiation and joint construction to face structural backwardness and a political agenda overflowing with social needs. However, this prognosis will not last long, since the irruption of a process of neoliberal reforms in the early nineties of the last century and an incremental insertion into the global economy, which in the early nineties and an incremental insertion into the global economy heralded the rise of open regionalism.

   

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  Quality Management as a tool for the development of a welfare society

  No. 86 (2024)

  Quality management has a cross-cutting impact on the use of resources in organizations, the effectiveness and efficiency in achieving their objectives, as well as on the way in which their products or services are delivered to their final recipients. On the other hand, the pursuit of quality, in the form of process improvement and governance, in the private and public sector has become a critical element in advancing transparency and accountability of governments and entrepreneurs to users or customers.

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  Gobernanza global y cambio organizacional: herramientas para la innovación pública

  No. 85 (2023)

  La gobernanza global y el cambio organizacional son dos conceptos interrelacionados que desempeñan un papel esencial en la capacidad de las instituciones públicas para responder a los desafíos contemporáneos. En un mundo marcado por la interdependencia y la rápida evolución tecnológica, las estructuras tradicionales de gobierno en las gestiones se enfrentan a presiones significativas para adaptarse y evolucionar. El cambio es la única constante.

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  Central American Reflections on Commu

  No. 84 (2023)

  To achieve justice, three elements are needed: legal and civic education for all, solid institutions of rights and respect for legal precepts or
  and civic education for all, solid institutions of rights, and respect for legal or constitutional precepts.
  Thus, the last two constitute what we lawyers call the Rule of Law.
  It is very timely to publish this magazine in which two institutions come together.
  --the Central American Institute of Public Administration of Central America and Panama (ICAP), and the Central American Court of Justice (CCJ). Both institutions are two small pillars within a large organization: the Central American Integration System (SICA), which we want to make grow and fortify so that there is more support for the and fortify so that there is more support for the integration of our countries, so that our nations and nations and strengthen our nations and the governments of the area that comprise them.

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  Public management in transformation: territories and change management

  No. 83 (2022)

  Transforming and adapting public management to new social needs must be a renewed commitment of the administration. Change and innovation are part of humanity itself, but today's digital environments, the immediacy of communication and the different risk fronts, require from the public, a better management of data, information and the generation of resolution environments that point to higher levels of development.

  
  The truth is that this is a reading that is difficult to implement, because, although there is a conscious effort from the administration, the daily occupations end up dominating the agenda leaving aside the broader environment, making it more complicated to operate from the strategy, added to the fact that the management and adaptation to a dynamic dominated by the digital, generates a convergence between the practices of yesterday and the new customs of today, where inequalities and knowledge gaps can be accentuated.

  
  The discourse of change is present more than ever in the shared ideology and also in management, however, there are a large number of interests, uncertainties and limits, and in the context of the post-pandemic, the capacity of institutions to generate trust has become relevant, both from the strategic direction, administration, but also for the alignment of expectations from the territories and vulnerable populations.

  
  In this context, the 83rd edition of the Central American Journal of Public Administration proposes a review of the changes and adaptation of the public sector, focusing on three relevant topics: territoriality, migration and education. Reviewing from research and cases, contributions and transformations that have been implemented and that help to better understand the phenomena and to contribute with new solutions.