Colombia's Slow Economic Growth From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century /

• Main Author: Luzardo-Luna, Ivan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Latin America-History.; Economic growth.; Development economics.; Latin America-Economic conditions.; Economic policy.; Economic History.; Latin American History.; Economic Growth.; Development Economics.; Latin American and Caribbean Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.

Looking at the years 1870-2016, this book analyses the reasons behind Colombia's chronically slow economic growth. As a comparative economic history, it examines why Colombia has seen lower growth rates than countries with similar institutions, culture and colonial origins, such as Argentina in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Particular Colombian Case in Latin America: A Singular Path with the Same Results
• 2. The Price of the Regeneration, 1870-1914: How Colombia Missed the Belle Époque
• 3. The Take-Off, 1914-1929: Coffee, Railways and Regional Divergence
• 4. The Liberal Republic, 1930-1945: Overcoming the Great Depression, the Rise of Interventionism and Economic Slowdown
• 5. The Import Substitution Era, 1945-1980: The Consolidation of Interventionism, Financial Repression and the Slow Way to Industrialisation
• 6. The Lost Decades, 1980-2000: External Debt, Structural Reforms and a Deep Financial Crisis
• 7. Commodities-Driven Growth, 2001-2018: The Colombian Miracle.