The control of the expansion, in the metropolitan areas, represents, now a days, one of the most important challenges that the governmental authorities, in almost every region should face, to understand the context in which metropolitan settlers life's develops, with it's different local,...

Any conventional poverty line, determined from the purchase power standard ought to establish distinctions inside the essential expenditures, defining that poverty line, in the urban space as well as in the countryside. Migration flows toward cities are the result of employment composition....

What are the empirical effects of trade liberalization? This question is debated nowadays, in both an international and a regional scope. This work analyzes the economic inequality among Mexican states by means of a convergence methodology and spatial econometrics techniques. Results indicate a...

In this paper we analyze the empirical developments concerning the estimation of the nominal wage equation proposed in the context of the New Economic Geography models. Results from the empirical works carried out for a sample of countries and for the European Union confirm the theoretical...

Este trabajo utiliza los aportes teóricos y empíricos de la reciente literatura internacional sobre los determinantes del crecimiento económico de largo plazo, para explicar el origen histórico de las enormes desigualdades económicas regionales que caracterizan a Colombia. Los resultados...

On these current days, the world’s economic map is dominated by clusters or economic groupings, present in almost all geographical levels, which have demonstrated to be critical masses with an unusual success on specific fields. Such clusters are groupings of firms and related institutions...

En los últimos años, el deterioro económico y social del Departamentodel Chocó ha sido noticia nacional. Los diferentes indicadores muestranun estancamiento relativo del departamento, cuyo rezago se ha ampliadocon el paso del tiempo. Este documento identifica cinco elementos quehan...

Spanish Abstract: Este documento resume y analiza las principales fuentes y métodos empleados en la reconstrucción de PIB regionales para los últimos dos siglos en Colombia. Además, se ofrece una perspectiva general de lo que se esperaría fuese la evolución de este campo de estudio en los...