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"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

CONTENIDO: Aproximaciones teóricas al concepto de poder constituyente / Juana Oberlaender Rojas / - El poder constituyente en negri y Habernas: aproximaciones descriptivas y perspectivas críticas / Oscar Mejía Quintana / - El camino de la constitución de 1991: diario de la exclusión / Santiago Amador Villaneta / - El control constitucional de las reformas constitucionales: ¿una cuestión jurídica o política? / Andrés Sanín Ordoñez / - El poder constituyente y la resolución del conflicto armado colombiano / Andrés Mejía Pizano / - Poder constituyente, crisis política y...

"Six essays analyze Colombia/US relations in post-Cold War period and challenges facing Colombia as US seeks to impose an ill-conceived anti-narcotics policy. Discusses policy options (including drug legalization), alternatives to extradition, and US certification requirements"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Monograph on the history of data collecting in Colombia from the pre-colombian era to 1978 - discusses statistical computing techniques, types of census and surveys carried out, data collecting through the ages, and describes functions of the national level statistical service, etc. Bibliography pp. 589 to 594.