In this article the author describes the new banks established in Cartagena flourishment and decline of private regional banks in Colombia (1872-1925). Using the accounts of one semestral balance of the most important banks, illustration is made of the operations carried out. Furthermore, it is...

This study analyses the causes of Barranquilla's loss of dynamism in the postwar period. The central thesis is that during the twenties and thirties manufacturing growth there was not integrated with the local and regional economics but arose from its port facilities. The decline of the latter...