The Liberal Rarity of South America: Oil and Mining Policy Reform in Colombia in the 2000s

The Politics of Subsidies to Coal Extraction in Colombia

“…This pursuit of short-term revenues partly explains why the economic policy of the 2000s prioritised the extractives sector and introduced incentives for mining. The thinking was that development of this sector would deliver a steady flow of rents for the state, as long as conditions were made attractive enough to foreign investors (Caballero Argáez and Bitar 2015).…”