Local Government, Taxes, and Guns: Successful Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, María Teresa Gutiérrez, Tania Guzmán, Juan Carlos Arenas Gómez and María Teresa Pinto

No wp-2011-026, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation processes as 'urban/metropolitan miracles'. The term comes from the fact that both common citizens and pundits considered these to be extremely unlikely, that they were fast, and that they were large-scale.

Keywords: Local government; Political science; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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