The convergence/divergence debate and plausible explanations to the process of catching-up remain highly controversial research areas in growth economics. Recently, these issues have been the subject of questionable predictions with regard future prospect for backward countries, raising concerns...

In this work, the behavior of the agricultural imports appears before and agroindustrial Colombians and alter the economic opening of end of the ninety. One is that diminution of great part of the tariff and for-tariff mechanism of protection, combined with the revaluation and the diminution of...

The convergence/divergence debate and plausible explanations to the process of catching-up remain highly controversial research areas in growth economics. Recently, these issues have been the subject of questionable predictions with regard future prospect for backward countries, raising concerns...