Poverty, armed conflict and human rights: An analysis of the objective causes of violence in Colombia

Alexander Cotte Poveda

No 7313, Serie de Documentos en Economía y Violencia from Centro de Investigaciones en Violencia, Instituciones y Desarrollo Económico (VIDE)

Abstract: This work analyses the influence of economic variables, poverty and armed conflict on violence in Colombia. For this purpose, a time series method is used to analyse economic and social data through which different long-term coefficients are estimated in order to determine the effects of these variables on violence in Colombia from 1950 to 2006. Socioeconomic characteristics, poverty and variables associated with armed conflict affect the dynamics of violence, and moreover, there are various political variables that have a notable influence upon the determinants of violence in Colombia. More precisely, variables associated with a lack of state presence in some regions and educational aspects are determinant factors that influence the incidence of violence in the country.

Keywords: Poverty; Violence; Armed Conflict; Economic Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E23 O4 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50
Date: 2010-08-19
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1593502

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000137:007313

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Serie de Documentos en Economía y Violencia from Centro de Investigaciones en Violencia, Instituciones y Desarrollo Económico (VIDE)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alexander Cotte Poveda ().