A Regional Economic Policy for Colombia

Publicado en

  • Revista de Economía del Rosario

Resumen

  • This paper proposes a framework for a regional economic policy in Colombia. The regional characteristics and disparities of the country are studied, and regional disparities are shown to be both significant and persistent over time. This calls for a policy initiative to promote the development of the poorer regions of the country. The studyhere draws lessons from other cases of the regional economic policy, and proposes a framework based on the regional policy initiative that is currently being implemented in Brazil.

fecha de publicación

  • 2004

Líneas de investigación

  • Convergence
  • Disparities
  • Regional Economics
  • Regional Policy