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Socio-political instability is considered as an obstacle for economic and social development of countries. Therefore, Political violence as a feature of socio-political instability is a significant development constraint that generates economic problems, limits public and private investments, and damages the country's infrastructure. This paper offers an explanation for political violence and economic development through an empirical analysis of Colombian departments that includes factors such as social conditions and narcotrafficking. We use multiple datasets to measure political violence and economic development, and we employ panel fixed-effects Driscoll and Kraay regressions and Generalized Method of Moments Estimation (GMM) for a sample of Colombian departments over the period 2000-2014. In the political violence model, we find that the aggregate-level production per capita, education, arrests and health coverage have a negative effect on political violence, whereas GINI, unemployment rate, illegal drugs and displaced population have a positive effect on violence. In the economic development model, political violence, armed actions and corruption have a negative effect on economic development, whereas population, saving, employment, political participation, manufacturing and production have a positive effect on economic development. The findings demonstrate the importance of implementing social policies and strategies against political violence to increase economic growth and development, productivity, political participation and security for the population across Colombia's departments. ; peer-reviewed

Compares Colombia's guerrilla warfare and other paramilitary actions with the anti-government armed conflict in Argentina in the 1970s.

We apply the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) & Beveridge-Nelson (BN) business cycle decomposition methods to a time series of homicides in Colombia (1946-1999). Separating out "permanent" from "cyclical" murder, we hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with the periodic political unrest in the country. The results show a good match between the political events in the country & the computed cyclical murder component. 3 Figures, 20 References. [Copyright 2004 Elsevier B.V.]

Argues that the increasing pattern of violence is the result of land distribution patterns, escalation of guerrilla warfare, and role of military institutions, 1940s to 1990s. Topics include drug trade, organized crime, war economy, and prospects for democracy; guerrilla groups include the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Colombianas (FARC), Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN), Ejercito Popular de Liberacion (EPL), and Coordinadora National Guerrillera (CGN).

Violence, in its criminal and political aspects, largely reflects the contradictory impulses set in motion by modernization and serves as an expression of the various dislocations — social, economic, psychological and cultural — which accompany that process. Violence increases when the prevailing institutions fail to mediate among the various antagonistic forces unleashed by socio-economic and political change. Colombia represents a country where violence has risen overwhelmingly in recent years, reaching extremes of both extent and duration. A phenomenon well worth scholarly attention, the subject of violence has given rise to an impressive body of literature concerned with exploring its many aspects: its causes, trajectory, and variety of manifestations (see Sánchez, 1991).