Two Hundred Years of Colombian Economic Growth: The Role of TFP

Publicado en

  • Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía

Resumen

  • Using modern growth theory, we estimate Colombian total-factor productivity relative to the United Kingdom’s for the last 200 years in order to match observed income differences. Our results show Colombia’s remarkably inefficient use of technology relative to a country that is a leader in this regard and provide quantitative estimates of the proximate causes of relative income differences between the two economies.

fecha de publicación

  • 2011

Líneas de investigación

  • Colombia
  • Industrialization
  • Long-Run Growth
  • Relative Income Differences
  • Total Factor Productivity

Página inicial

  • 181

Última página

  • 198

Volumen

  • 48

Issue

  • 2