Do conflicts create poverty traps? Asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia

Internal conflicts entail large asset losses for certain segments in the civilian population. Asset losses may compromise the future welfare of households, thus leaving a legacy of structural poverty that is difficult to overcome. The purpose of this article is to analyze how asset losses occur during internal conflicts and the process of asset accumulation following the initial shock. To do this, we concentrate on a particularly vulnerable group of victims of war—the displaced population in Colombia. In achieving our objective, we adopt quantitative and qualitative approaches by: (i) providing a detailed description of losses stemming from forced displacement; (ii) analyzing qualitative evidence so as to understand the asset recovery processes for the displaced population; and (iii) estimating OLS, Instrumental Variable and quartile regressions in order to identify the determinants of asset losses stemming from forced displacement, and asset accumulation following the initial shock. The results indicate that recuperating asset losses or accumulating new assets is a rare event; only 25 percent of households are able to recover their original asset base, while asset ownership still seems insufficient for overcoming poverty. In addition, displaced households do not catch up even as settlement at destination sites consolidates. Therefore, unless a positive intervention is implemented, displaced households become locked in a low income trajectory, and are unlikely to leap forward to a high return asset level.Forced migration, civil conflict, asset losses, structural poverty, quantile regressions

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Teresa Zapata Fernández de la Hoz, La Corte de Felipe IV se viste de fiesta. La entrada de Mariana de Austria (1649), Valencia, Universidad de Valencia, 2016. 419 pages [Review]

[Resumen] Reseña del libro: Teresa Zapata Fernández de la Hoz, La Corte de Felipe IV se viste de fiesta. La entrada de Mariana de Austria (1649), que analiza el proceso nupcial de la boda de Mariana de Austria y Felipe IV, haciendo hincapié en la entrada triunfal de la reina en Madrid[Abstract] Review on the book: Teresa Zapata Fernández de la Hoz, La Corte de Felipe IV se viste de fiesta. La entrada de Mariana de Austria (1649), which analyzes the royal wedding between Mariana de Austria and Felipe IV, specially the triumphal entry of the queen in Madrid

Una visión interdisciplinar del Madrid del Siglo de Oro: ideología, sociedad y fiesta cortesana a través de las relaciones de suceso

The purpose of this paper is to study one narrative of events (relación de sucesos) which was writting because of Mariana de Austria’s triumphal entry in Madrid after her marriage to Felipe IV. We try to reconstruct the society and the enviroment in Madrid’s Court in a festive day with an interdisciplinary point of view. We follow, in short, a triple objective: to present the political and royal ups and downs surrounding the link and the entry; to study the court party as an interdisciplinary universe in which different aspects related to architecture, painting, sculpture, music, dance, poetry, theatre, etc. are integrated, disciplines that coexist during the celebration; to show how, throw this kind of texts, it is possible to perform a sociologic study of the 17th century's societyEn el presente artículo se pretende realizar un estudio sobre una de las relaciones de sucesos que se escribieron con motivo de la entrada triunfal de Mariana de Austria en Madrid tras su matrimonio con Felipe IV. Su finalidad es reconstruir desde un punto de vista interdisciplinar la sociedad y el ambiente de la Corte madrileña en un día festivo. Se persigue, en definitiva, un triple objetivo: presentar los avatares políticos y regios que rodearon al enlace y a la entrada; estudiar la fiesta cortesana como un universo interdisciplinario en el que se integran aspectos relacionados con la arquitectura, pintura, escultura, música, danza, poesía, teatro, etc., que conviven en la ciudad durante la celebración; demostrar cómo, a través de este tipo de textos, es posible realizar un estudio sociológico de la sociedad del S. XVI

El poder del mapa en la creación de nacionalismos : Ecuador siglo XX

The present investigation will highlight the political importance that the national map can acquire when it is used as the instrument that can be capable of illustrating the imagined community of a State. The case study presented here will focus on the context about the border conflict between Ecuador and Peru and, specifically, after the war between the two countries in 1941; Ecuadorian nationalist official rhetoric will be analyzed, and evidence will be presented to help determine a triangulation between nation, limits and nationalism through the use of the national map as a tool of official State discourse...La presente investigación resaltará la importancia política que puede llegar a adquirir el mapa nacional, al momento de ser utilizado como el instrumento capaz de ilustrar la comunidad imaginada de un Estado. El estudio de caso aquí presentado se centrará en el contexto del conflicto limítrofe entre Ecuador y Perú y, concretamente a partir de la guerra sucedida entre ambos países en el año 1941; se analizará la retórica oficial nacionalista ecuatoriana y se presentarán las evidencias que ayuden a determinar una triangulación entre nación, limites y nacionalismo mediante el uso del mapa nacional como una herramienta del discurso oficial del Estado..