The Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on the Colombian Economy

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
124
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C23, C22, N76, N86
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper measures some of the impacts that development in transportation infrastructure could have on the Colombian economy during the period 1905-1990. The first section of the paper analyzes the responsiveness of the economy to changes in transportati