A Tropical Success Story: A Century of Improvements in the Biological Standard of Living, Colombia 1910-2002

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
289
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
I12, I31, N16, N36
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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