In Colombia, the ongoing armed conflict has had severe effects on internal migration and displacement. While occasions … of mass displacement usually attract significant attention, little is known about why forced displacement in Colombia … consequences and mechanisms of forced slow-onset displacement and focuses on the interactions between "violence," "food security …

Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an … impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …

lens of the recent post-conflict experience of Colombia, this paper explores the challenges of increasing tax revenues amid … violence and illicit economic activities. We study four factors that the literature has identified as key determinants of a … country's local fiscal capacity: early land conflicts; historical political violence; recent political violence; and the …

What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants … in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced violence using new data from rural Mexico. A … 21%; the extra money increase the wife's freedom and security, is spent on individual and household goods, and it crowds …