Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Why? We show that land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of...

We study the theoretical and empirical links between fiscal policy and spatial inequality, with a non-exclusive focus on Latin American countries. We outline the two main dimensions of fiscal policy vis-à-vis economic inequality, and show how these can be used to analyze specific policy...

Este articulo en primer termino hace una breve resena de la evolucion macroeconomica y los cambios en la estructura productiva de Colombia durante los anos noventa. A partir de la informacion disponible en las encuestas de hogares, analiza posteriormente la dinamica laboral, por sectores...