Coal production and economic growth in the Caribbean mining region in Colombia

Authors

  • Etna Mercedes Bayona Velásquez Universidad del Magdalena

Keywords:

Economic Growth, natural resource curse, coal, Cesar and La Guajira

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of coal mining in the economic growth of Cesar and La Guajira departments, in Colombia. Descriptive statistics was initially used in order to calculate the effect of the coal mining on the economy of these departments. Subsequently, a cross-sectional regression was made and its estimation method was ordinary least squares (OLS). The analysis of causal effect was carried out in both departments. For this purpose, two functions were investigated: firstly regarding the mining production and secondly regarding the mining city, in order to avoid multicollinearity problems that can occur in both variables. High dependence on coal production was observed on Cesar and Guajira’s GDP, which was reflected in the increased in­volvement with the mining municipalities of Cesar and La Guajira departments within the departmental GDP.

Published

2016-05-13

Issue

Section

Science article