The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

Mercosur is currently going through an intermediate integration stage in which macroeconomic interdependence acquires more importance. Then, the need arises to adopt strategic definitions with regard to the future of the process itself. The study examines macroeconomic interdependence with a...

Spanish Abstract: Al hablar de Tratados de Libre Comercio, se debe hacer un análisis de las relaciones internacionales que recaen sobre los mismos y de aspectos tales como la globalización. El caso del TLC entre Colombia y Estados Unidos muestra ciertos elementos contraproducentes para el...

La tesis central del presente ensayo es que un proceso exitoso de desarrollo capitalista nacional en el contexto de un mercado mundial caracterizado por la existencia de múltiples monedas nacionales y dividido en países desarrollados hegemónicos del Primer Mundo y países subdesarrollados...

En este documento se hace una evaluación tanto de las fortalezas de la economía colombiana que contribuirían a la sostenibilidad actual del crecimiento, como de los factores de riesgo y vulnerabilidades que podrían afectarlo negativamente. Con este propósito se compara el desempeño...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se intenta mostrar que las modificaciones en los tipos de cambio tienen efectos limitados en el aumento del producto, mientras que, inversamente, esos cambios impactan especialmente en la distribución del ingreso al incidir en los precios domésticos. Se...

This paper studies the evolution of per capita income disparities across Latin America between 1950 and 2008 through an analysis of beta and sigma convergence. Our main objective is to detect whether countries have converged to a common stead state in per capita income or if on the contrary,...

In this work we made an empirical application of the model of Romer (1993) for the 32 states of Mexico on period 1990-2000, in order to determine if this country faces a gap of physical goods or a technological gap in the ample sense (that is to say, that inlcluye knowledge and ideas). We found...

Studies in economic growth have focused on the convergence hypothesis for regions, territories and groups of countries. The main idea is that on the long run, the poorer regions would catch up to the richer in terms of Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. This paper analyses the economic...

Studies in economic growth have focused on the convergence hypothesis for regions, territories and groups of countries. The main idea is that on the long run, the poorer regions would catch up to the richer in terms of Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. This paper analyses the economic...