This article analyzes the industrial structure behavior of Colombia and its regions between 1974 and 2005, to determine, if the liberal reform carried out at the end of the 20th century caused the industrial stagnation and its lack of diversification. The evidence proved that the “slow down”...

This paper quantitatively shows that the 1945 regional differences in the degree of development of manufacturing industry are explained by human capital accumulation prior to industrial development. Human capital accumulation was more intense in the regions with higher presence of non white free...

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia since the early twentieth century. We uncover variation across countries and over time that the literature on industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single...