{"id":1818,"date":"2012-06-07T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:29:48","slug":"public-funds-for-public-policy-research-in-latin-america-a-study-by-lardone-and-roggero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/articles\/public-funds-for-public-policy-research-in-latin-america-a-study-by-lardone-and-roggero\/","title":{"rendered":"Public funds for public policy research in Latin America: a study by Lardone and Roggero"},"content":{"rendered":"
Think tanks in Latin America are mostly dependent on private and foreign funding, while governments don\u2019t have a policy toward funding them and the social sciences sector as a whole. \u00a0This is the conclusion that Mart\u00edn Lardone and Marcos Roggero came to in\u00a0V\u00ednculos entre conocimiento y pol\u00edtica: el rol de la investigaci\u00f3n en el debate public en Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/em>\u00a0(edited by Norma Correa and Enrique Mendizabal)<\/a>. In their study about the role of the government in public policy research funding in Latin America, they found that governments in the region have a narrow view of research promotion so that regular public funding is mainly directed to \u201chard sciences\u201d \u2013biochemistry, medicine, agriculture, etc.-, leaving a marginal share of funding for the social sciences.<\/p>\n Lardone and Roggero identified two clear research funding mechanisms:<\/p>\n The authors concluded that programmatic financing tends to favour research done in universities, well-established entities with fixed budgets, and \u201chard scientific\u201d research. As an example, only 10% of projects approved by Colombia\u2019s COLCIENCIAS, the national agency responsible for science and technologies, are related to social sciences and education, while the remaining 90% funds natural and exact sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture, etc.<\/p>\n It is not surprising, either, to find efforts to promote in-house research through public policy research inside ministries and public agencies, such as in\u00a0Indonesia<\/a>, which follows a policy of\u00a0Balitbangs, or government research units<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Latin America, the large majority of think tanks are private and their finances are weak. They depend on private and foreign funding for international cooperation and foundations from abroad. As mentioned before, think tanks have difficulties to access public funding. The most common way of getting public fund is by offering their own services through short-term contracts, agreements, or sometimes bidding for work in government projects. Unfortunately this means that often projects aren\u2019t longer than a year because governments are subject to one-year budget processes.On the other side, many think tanks in Latin America prefer to be distant from government funds, citing autonomy and independent agenda as key factors for their work.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, various new types of public financing for public policy research are appearing in Latin America, for example:<\/p>\n Think tanks in Latin America are mostly dependent on private and foreign funding, while governments don\u2019t have a policy toward funding them and the social sciences sector as a whole. \u00a0This is the conclusion that Mart\u00edn Lardone and Marcos Roggero came to in\u00a0V\u00ednculos entre conocimiento y pol\u00edtica: el rol de la investigaci\u00f3n en el debate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[320,200,194,581,580],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onthinktanks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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