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The Paradox of Land Reform, Inequality and Development in Colombia
Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Why? We show that land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of Colombia's 1100+ municipalities lack a landed elite. Here, rural properties grew larger, land inequality and dispersion fell, and development indicators improved. But in municipalities where such an elite does exist and landholding is highly concentrated, such positive effects are counteracted, resulting in smaller rural properties, greater dispersion, and lower levels of development. We show that all of these effects - positive and negative - flow through local policy, which elites distort to benefit themselves. Our evidence implies that land reform's second-order effects, on the distribution of local power, are more important than its first-order effects on the distribution of land.
A History of Colombian Economic Thought
Ever since the quest for independence between 1810 and 1819, economic thought in Colombia has been shaped by policy debates and characterized by a pragmatic and eclectic approach. Economic thought in Colombia can only be revealed through the exploration of economists’ practices and the role of economic arguments within broader public debate. This history of Colombian economic thought provides a detailed account of major issues that have marked the constant feedback between economic ideas and economic practice in Colombia during the 19th and 20th centuries. This volume is thus a history of the interaction between ideas and policy. Those involved in these debates – politicians, public offi...
Policy Analysis in Colombia
Leading Colombian academics and experienced policy practitioners cast new light on their country in this systematic overview of policy analysis for an international audience. Examining the historical development and current status of policy analysis as a field of study and in practice, it considers public policy analysis in government and the judiciary, and across domains including health, education and the military. Contributors also delve into Colombia’s notable success in economic regeneration, the management of cultural diversity and the resolution of long-term internal armed conflict. Not just an important summation of policy analysis in Colombia, this book also provides insights and lessons applicable elsewhere.
Producing and living the high-rise: New contexts, old questions?
The purpose of the book is to assess the process of urban verticalization in different contexts through time, to provide insight into the relationships between highrise design and the way inhabitants negotiate them in their everyday lives, to assess how planners, politicians, and designers negotiate residential highrises in the strategies they develop for building the city and to introduce urban narratives and cartographies. Verticalization, although not new, currently takes place in a very different context than post-1945. Today, highrise residential buildings are more than architectural solutions: they are commodities in a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and munic...
Colombia: A Country Study
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
The Long Land War
A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world “An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral power, The Long Land War offers the definitive account of the rise and fall of land rights around the world over the last 150 years.” —Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban t...
La cuestión de la tierra en el marco de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible en Colombia (Rural Land in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goal in Colombia).
Spanish Abstract: Este documento presenta los nuevos Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible a la luz de la realidad rural en Colombia. Si bien se da cuenta del balance positivo para Colombia en materia de reducción de pobreza, como resultado del esfuerzo por cumplir los Objetivos del Milenio, se enfatiza en la necesidad de abordar la pobreza y la desigualdad rural para lograr metas de larga duración. Abordar las nuevas metas en el ámbito rural significa abordar el alcance del uso y estructura de la propiedad. En el campo, garantizar ingresos, estabilidad y sostenibilidad de la producción involucra la tierra. En este contexto, es necesario abordar no sólo las estrategias que brinden resultados en el mediano plazo sino también aquellos que han generado efectos negativos para el desarrollo sostenible de la población rural, en particular, la estructura de la tenencia de la tierra.
