This paper analyzes the potential for regional collective action in Latin America in the areas of finance, trade and infrastructure. Seven priority areas emerge. First, regional cooperation within increasingly important global financial and trade institutions (the G20, the Financial Stability...

El presente documento explora la relación entre la competencia política y el adecuado suministro de bienes públicos en un contexto descentralizado con el fin de observar si la existencia de un mayor flujo de información, producto de la competencia política, así como la existencia de una...

Los ecosistemas marinos y costeros son importantes por los bienes y servicios que proveen a la sociedad. A pesar de su importancia, estos ecosistemas están cada vez más expuestos a diferentes tipos de amenazas por prácticas humanas o fenómenos naturales, lo que ha causado una pérdida...

Previous work has documented a negative correlation between internal conflict and state capacity. We attempt to shed light on mechanisms that underlie this relationship, using data for Colombian municipalities. We rely on identifying heterogeneous effects of different types of violent events on...

En el marco del diseño e implementación del subsistema de Áreas Marinas Protegidas (SAMP) en Colombia, se realiza una valoración económica (VE) comprehensiva que utiliza variados métodos e incluye diferentes agentes que van desde comunidades locales hasta compradores de créditos de...

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...

La valoración económica tradicional (VE) se ha constituido en una herramienta fundamental para apoyar el establecimiento de áreas marinas protegidas como la estrategia preferida para la conservación de los ecosistemas marinos y costeros y de los servicios que éstos proveen. Sin embargo,...

This paper summarizes the results of a Global Development Network study, carried on by sixteen multidisciplinary research teams and covering thirty developing countries, under the authors general direction, on the effects of different governance structures on the quality and equity of access in...

We model the war on drugs in source countries as a conflict over scarce inputs of successive levels of the production and trafficking chain. We explicitly model the vertical structure of the drug trade as being composed of several stages, and study how different policies aimed at different...

We re-examine the view that wars make strong states, taking advantage of panel data to address two of the most obvious endogeneity concerns that arise in this context: initial conditions and persistence of state capacity. Our main message is that, in modern times, there is no evidence that wars...