The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the influence of Argentina and Brazil on the Uruguayan economy between 1980 and 2002. The analysis of the relations between the regional GDPs indicated the existence of a long-term equilibrium between the growth rates of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay....