This paper analyses some determinants of urban violence in seven major Colombian cities. The empirical research is intended to explore variations in violence across these Colombian cities and the influence of these variations on Colombia´s economic development. In this study, several...

In this paper, we analyse economic development and growth through traditional measures (gross domestic product and human development index) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in Colombian departments over the period 1993-2007. We use a DEA model to measure and rank economic development and...

Este trabajo desarrolla un indicador para evaluar el nivel de efectividad del control de la violencia utilizando el método de análisis DEA. El índice evalúa el grado de efectividad del control de la violencia usando los departamentos de Colombia en el periodo 1993 - 2007. Comparando los...

This research paper performs a review of the most recent literature about the topic of economic growth, inequality poverty and violence in Colombia. The survey explores some of the characteristics, connections and realities which have been documented in the existing literature on the incidence...

The aim of this work was to analyze the major effects of public military forces expenditure on Colombia economic growth during 1970-2003 span period. Time series methodology was used for economic data, allowing for determining the several different coefficients and final contribution to capital...

General work planning makes reference to the moment of economic policy and political, social, and institutional forces, in addition to other sociopolitical instability variables, over the definition of the growth path of the country. The general impact on growth will be dependent o nature or...

The general view of this document makes reference to the moment of development model and economic policy about determination of the country course of growth. The effects of growth are dependent on the nature of permanent or transient shock, and on certain economy conditions: the relative...