This paper analyzes extractive industries in Colombia and their connections to other economic activities in the country. We use detailed social security data on all formal employees to create an industry-relatedness measure using labor flows between industries. Drawing on the vast network...

Although since 1974, under pressure of the new trends in the world economy, public financing began gradually to lose its relative importance for Latin American countries, there seems to persist an obvious demand for bodies such as the Inter-American Development Bank. In the author's view, the...