Efectos de la política de seguridad sobre el crecimiento económico en Colombia 1990-2006

Abstract

"Colombia's economic growth during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century has coincided with an upsurge in the levels of violence in the country. As a potential solution to this problem, Defense and Security Spending has increased, becoming a central State policy so as to not only return the monopoly of force and weapons to the State but also kindle growth throughout the country. The purpose of this work is to analyze the impact of these security policies on economic growth through national and departmental investment. It is an attempt to determine whether security is, as has been raised in recent presidential administrations, a key condition for Colombia's growth in the period 1990-2006, or, rather, a non-essential parameter that may have helped this growth. One of the main findings of this paper is that it is not possible to infer a direct and clear relation between security policies and domestic investment."