Goals met or just empty promises? : first version of the democratic security policy in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
700
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
K1, H5, R5
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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