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En este trabajo nos proponemos analizar el decurso de la formación y desarrollo de la economía colombiana, partiendo desde la herencia colonial hasta nuestros días, tomando como referencia los hitos más importantes a destacar durante los doscientos años que han transcurrido desde que Colombia empezó su vida independiente. El siglo XIX se caracterizó por la inestabilidad política e institucional, el país estuvo sacudido por los recurrentes alzamientos y confrontación armada, que imposibilitaron un mayor progreso económico y social. El café y el río grande de La Magdalena fueron los grandes protagonistas en esta etapa, en la que no se contó con un mercado interno integrado sino s...
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During the last decade, the Latin American and Caribbean region has experienced unprecedented natural resources abundance. This book highlights how transparency can help realize the benefits and reduce negative externalities associated with the extractive industries in the region. A central message is that high-quality and well-managed information is critical to ensure the transparent and effective governance of the sector. The insights from experiences in the region can help policymakers design and implement effective regulatory reforms and adopt international standards that contribute to this goal. This is particularly important at a time when the recent boom experienced by extractives in the region may be coming to an end.
Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?