Clavijo Vergara analyses the dynamics of Colombia's public and external debt over the period 1997-2003. He argues that a proper assessment of debt sustainability requires that the cost of serving the debt is computed on a gross basis (i.e. including the interest payments on intra-governmental...

This article illustrates how workers in the Colombian coffee growing sector still outrank those in the other economic sectors. On the other hand, the article shows some evidence of the elimination of dualism in the economy of the country at the same time that a process of a nationwide labor...