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We describe the patterns of economic growth and social progress in Colombian "functional territories". Unlike political/administrative divisions that emerge at least partly for historical reasons unrelated to economic interactions, functional territories reflect the patterns of spatial...
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level. Land reform in Colombia, understood as the allocation of public land to peasant, has granted 23 million hectares …
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The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labor institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. And yet we show that Colombian municipalities with encomiendas in 1560 enjoy better outcomes today across multiple dimensions of...
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Colombia is an interesting case study within emerging countries. Through 150 years of democratic tradition and seven … growth. In Colombia, the reason lies partly in the consequences of discovering considerable oil reserves, the escalation of … and social expenditure. In the current decade Colombia has made vast progress in invigorating the sources of economic …
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This research attempts to explain the poor performance of the Colombian economy in the world markets during the late nineteenth century. Based on data on exportable production at the municipal level in 1892, coffee production in 1925 and of public land allocation and land conflicts during the...
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