This paper highlights the importance of institutions on development and as it particularly applies to Colombia. It … economic freedom and judicial efficiency, low levels of corruption, effective bureaucracy, and protected private property. …

, and the diminution of corruption, by comparing the index of economic freedom against various statistical indicators of …

Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic … freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on … techniques regressing one or some freedom indices on corruption that do not allow for grasping all the aspects of economic …