Francisco Fernández de Castro / Research Fellow

Francisco Fernandez de Castro is practitioner and scholar. He has public policy experience in both national and international environments. At the national level, he held executive and advisory positions in the Mexican federal government; coordinated the fiscalization commission of the first National Convention on Public Finance; and has conducted cross-border research in the Mexico-United States region on sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and institutional capacities of local governments. At the international level, Francisco Fernandez de Castro received The Association for Social Economics - William R. Waters Award. He has participated in both research and editorial projects with the international scientific community, including the University of California Humanities Research Institute, CA, USA; the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, SG; and the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been speaker at national and international forums on planning and public policy. 

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Selected research reports and publications:

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Publications

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Fernandez de Castro, F. & Lejano, R. (2018). Program Implementation and the Invisible Hand of Community: The Experience of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Northern Mexico. In Adriana Mica, Katarzyna Wyrzykowska, Iwona Zielińska, and Rafał Wiśniewski (eds.). The sociology of the invisible hand. Peter Lang, Berlin.

 

Lejano, R., & Fernandez de Castro, F. (2014). Norm, network, and commons: The invisible hand of community. Journal of Environmental Science and Policy, 36, 73-85. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.07.012

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Research Reports 

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Fernandez de Castro, F. (2019). Los Mecanismos del Consenso en las Políticas Públicas. Public Policy Research Report 090720191. RI+DGE School of Government. México.

 

Fernandez de Castro, F. (2018). The Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer. The Paradox of Unrealistic Assumptions of a Successful Program. Public Policy Research Report 0220181. RI+DGE School of Government. México.

 

Fernandez de Castro, F. (2018). Diseño Institucional de un Municipio para Gobernar por Políticas Públicas. Elementos para una Estructura Organizacional Municipal. Public Policy Research Report 0515182. 

RI+DGE School of Government. México.

 

Fernandez de Castro, F. (2017). Does Urbanization Decrease Poverty? A Structural Equation Modeling Response. Technical Report 0920172. RI+DGE School of Government. México.

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