Latin America had a golden decade from 2002 to 2012, mostly thanks to favorable external conditions. Its commodity exports prices raised almost continuously, there were abundant capital inflows and low international interest rates. This golden decade has come to an end, even while no sudden...

In many developing countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread much faster and wider than the number of detected cases implies. By combining data from 59,770 RT-PCR tests on mostly asymptomatic individuals with administrative data on all detected cases, we capture the spread and dynamics of the...

This research attempts to explain the poor performance of the Colombian economy in the world markets during the late nineteenth century. Based on data on exportable production at the municipal level in 1892, coffee production in 1925 and of public land allocation and land conflicts during the...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo investiga la relación entre el despojo de tierras a los campesinos y el origen del conflicto civil en Colombia. Usando un enfoque de variables instrumentales con efectos fijos de pares de vecinos mostramos que el despojo histórico de las tierras de los...

Hirschman was both a pioneer and a dissenter of development economics. He shares with the high theory the virtues and misfortunes of committing to modernize the underdeveloped world, but his exposure to the politics of development in Latin America gave new life to his early insights. Revealing...

Spanish Abstract: El aumento en el área cultivada con coca en Colombia ha generado dudas con respecto a la estrategia antinarcóticos del país, y ha estimulado el escepticismo con respecto a las posibilidades de lograr una paz completa y definitiva. Asimismo, la percepción de fracaso ha dado...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estudia los procesos históricos bajo las cuales se han configurado las condiciones actuales de cuatro municipios pertenecientes a la región Atlántica Media de la Encuesta Longitudinal Colombiana de la Universidad de los Andes (ELCA). El artículo analiza con...