The Long Shadow of the Past: Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Colombia

Serie

• Documentos CEDE

Resumen

• We study the nature of regional inequality in Colombia over the past 200 years. The main empirical fact is that regional inequality has been highly persistent despite the large changes that have taken place and the modernization of the society. We show that regional inequality is highly correlated with significant within-country differences in economic and political institutions, which are themselves highly persistent over the same period. We propose a tentative political economy theory of why the spatial distribution of institutions and economic outcomes has been so persistent over time.

autores

• Robinson, James A.
• Fergusson, Leopoldo
• Molina Guerra, Carlos A.
• Vargas, Juan Fernando

fecha de publicación

• 2017-03

Área temática

• D31 - Renta personal, riqueza y sus distribuciones
• D72 - Procesos políticos: búsqueda de rentas económicas, cabildeo, elecciones, legislaturas y comportamiento de los votantes
• D73 - Burocracia; Procesos administrativos en organizaciones públicas; Corrupción
• D78 - Análisis positivo de las decisiones políticas y de su ejecución

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country
• South America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• Economic Institutions
• Political Institutions
• Regional Inequality

Issue

• 15445