Violencia guerrillera y crecimiento económico : Revisión de la literatura e índices de violencia a nivel departamental (1988-2005) (Guerrilla Violence and Economic Growth: Review of the Literature and Levels of Violence at the Departmental Level)

Colombia's armed conflict, going on since the 1960's, has left behind destruction of a fair amount of the country's physical and human capital. In this paper, we review the literature on guerrilla violence (FARC, ELN and AUC) and economic growth about both at the national level and, especially, at the department level. To do so, we review conclusions from all mayor papers on the subject and construct an index of violence related to each group at department level between 1988-2005 using principal component