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Land Conflicts, Property Rights, and the Rise of the Export Economy in Colombia, 1850–1925

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2010

Fabio Sánchez ,
María del Pilar López-Uribe  and
Antonella Fazio
Fabio Sánchez*
Affiliation:
Full Professor at CEDE, School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Calle 19a # 1-37E, Bloque C, Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. E-mails: fasanche@uniandes.edu.co.
María del Pilar López-Uribe*
Affiliation:
Instructor Professor and Researcher at CEDE, School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Calle 19a # 1-37E, Bloque C, Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. E-mails: del-lope@uniandes.edu.co.
Antonella Fazio*
Affiliation:
Researcher at CEDE, School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Calle 19a # 1-37E, Bloque C, Bogotá, D.C. Colombia. E-mails: a-fazio@uniandes.edu.co.
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Abstract

The poor performance of the Colombian economy in the world markets during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are attributable, in part, to the weakness of settlers’ property rights in frontier lands. To examine this issue, we collected data on production of agricultural exports at county (municipal) level in 1892, coffee production in 1925, and of public land allocation and land conflicts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The quantitative analysis suggests that in the absence of land conflicts, the per capita production of agricultural exports would have been in 1925 at least twice as much as that observed.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 378 - 399
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2010

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