Colombia’s Slow Economic Growth : From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
by Ivan Luzardo-Luna
1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results -- 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque -- 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence -- 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming the Great Depression, the Rise of Interventionism and Economic Slowdown -- 5. The Import Substitution Era, 1945-1980: The Consolidation of Interventionism, Financial Repression and the Slow Way to Industrialisation -- 6. The Lost Decades, 1980-2000: External Debt, Structural Reforms and a Deep Financial Crisis -- 7. Commodities-Driven Growth, 2001-2018: The Colombian Miracle