This chapter studies regional economic inequalities in Colombia between 1926 and 2018. We use regional economic data from several academic and official sources to study the patterns of economic growth through most of the century. We conclude that Colombian regions did not converge during this...

Persistence in poverty is often associated with "neighborhood effects". These effects create poverty traps that do not help lagging areas move forward on a path of sustained economic development. In the regions of a country can also operate this type of mechanism. This is one of the reasons why...