The state,writes Douglass North, trades a group of services, which we shall callprotection and justice, for revenue … thereforehave an incentive to hide revenues from the state, while differing in their ability todo so. Thus, the state will typically …

. Trade associations and firms emerged as the central actors driving industry development, with the state playing an … increasingly supporting role. This institutional arrangement represents a departure from the Indian state’s traditional approach to … development and the role of the state in other successful developmental models. A key reason why industry, rather than the state …

, the factors that led to the crisis in Rhode Island will be unveiled, and possible solutions to the state-specific problem …

This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on …

revenues from the State, all else equal. I also find that national-level informality responds to property rights discrimination … research. Therefore, I shift focus and method, discussing the reform of rules governing land rights in Colombia in the late … nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Colombia’s insertion into the world economy raised demand for land fertile for growing …

Colombia negotiated bilateral Trade Agreements (TAs) with the UnitedStates and with the MERCOSUR region (Argentina … meat consumers in Colombia. Our resultssuggest that with free imports of chicken parts from the U.S, beefconsumption and … Colombia gradually decreasesthe tariff for imported beef. We identify the reduction in marginalcosts required to compete with …