Violencia y crecimiento económico: un análisis empírico para Colombia

Abstract

The present article illustrates the interconnection between violence and the economic development in Colombia through a literatura review focused on previous researches and bias which have explained the mentioned conflicts from its empiric background with regard to the armed conflict. The obtained results are based on techniques of econometric analysis that explains violence as an institutional deficiency that affects the economic development when the social agents are inolved in criminal or il- legal acts such as kidnappings, homicides and infractions against properties. It can be concluded that through the analisys of the preceeding results, the rate of divergence of kidnappings, was conceived as a relevant variable associated with violence which have had negative impacts on the the economic development of Colombia