Borradores de Economia
Number:
157
Published:
Classification JEL:
E31
Keywords:
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
The most recent
Rocío Clara Alexandra Mora-Quiñones, Antonio José Orozco-Gallo, Dora Alicia Mora-Pérez
Constanza Martínez-Ventura, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra
Leonardo Fabio Morales, Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía, Didier Hermida-Giraldo, Francisco Javier Lasso-Valderrama, José Pulido
While in the early nineties Colombia grew at rates exceeding 4% and was catalogued as one of the top emerging markets, in 1999 its economy fell 4%, its exchange rate regime (a target zone) collapsed and by June of 2000 its unemployment level peaked at 20.