Jennifer S. Holmes, Sheila Amin Gutierrez de Pineres and Kevin M. Curtin, Guns, Drugs and Development in Colombia (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008)

摘要

In a country with a flourishing illicit drug trade, one would expect that in some way the national economy would benefit from it. But the situation in Colombia, as Jennifer Holmes, Sheila Gutierrez and Kevin Curtin argue in their book Guns, Drugs and Development in Colombia, is that despite initial economic benefits, the long-term effects are negative as the drug trade imposes high costs, such as for security. Negative effects include the concentration of land ownership, deterrents to foreign investment and a capital inflow leading to an appreciated peso that in turn harms exports.