Abstract:This article sheds new light on the interaction between trade policy formation, politics, and the economy in Colombia in the 20th century. The author combines original ex post interview data on the apertura process that took off in the 1990s with a meta-analysis of earlier studies on the political and economic history of Colombia. The analysis allows for a better understanding of the applicability of standard political-economy models to explain empirically the levels of protection of the manufacturing industry… Show more
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