Exports and Economic Development in Colombia: A Regional Perspective, 1830–1929

José Antonio Ocampo and Santiago Colmenares Guerra
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José Antonio Ocampo: Columbia University
Santiago Colmenares Guerra: University of Barcelona

Chapter 6 in The First Export Era Revisited, 2017, pp 189-231 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract From the immediate postindependence period to the Great Depression, Colombia went from having a mining-based export sector to being a mono-exporting coffee country. In the meantime, several relatively short export cycles were based on agricultural and forestry products. Although the different export cycles occurred in specific regions that combined different agricultural structures, socioeconomic stratifications, and production systems, none of them survived the fall in prices resulting from growing globalization pressures, except in those cases where production could be adapted to forms of production based on peasant workforce. Based on this idea, Ocampo and Colmenares analyze the evolution of exports for a century and its contribution to industrialization and economic modernization.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62340-5_6

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