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Graphic design: Robert Reineke CONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................................. xi Acronyms ......................................................................................................... xii An Overview of World Bank Policy Notes for Colombia ..........................................xvii Three development objectives.......................................................................................xviii Transition to sustainable peace ............................................................................................ xviii Fast poverty reduction but persistent inequality ..........................................................................xx Recent economic growth has brought shared prosperity. Is it sustainable? .....................................xxi Nine policy areas ...........................................................................................................xxiii Organizing the territory .......................................................................................................xxiv Improve rural areas first ......................................................................................................xxiv Make cities more connected and productive .............................................................................xxvi Manage disaster risks better ...............................................................................................xxviii Strive for environmental sustainability ................................................................................... xxx Marshalling all forms of capital: infrastructure, finance and innovation.....................xxxii Close the infrastructure gap ................................................................................................ xxxii More and better financial services for all ...............................................................................xxxv Make innovations thrive ....................................................................................................xxxvii Empowering people and localities .............................................................................xxxvii Tools for an integrated Social Protection System ..................................................................xxxviii Improve the decentralization process .........................................................................................xl Common threads ........................................................................................................... xlii Part One – Background Notes Chapter 1. Supporting Colombia’s Transition to Sustainable Peace and Development ............................................................................... 1 Main Messages .................................................................................................................. 2 The dynamics of armed conflict in Colombia ................................................................. 3 What does sustainable peace mean? ........................................................................................ 5 Understanding armed conflict and the transition to peace .............................................. 6 The transition to sustainable peace and development ................................................................... 7 Policies and programs for the three transitions ............................................................................ 9 Challenges for the Colombian government in the transition period .............................. 13 iv CONTENTS Political transition .............................................................................................................. 14 Security transition ................................................................................................................ 15 Development transition ......................................................................................................... 16 Endnotes ......................................................................................................................... 17 Chapter 2. Toward Shared Prosperity in Colombia ...............................................23 Main Messages ................................................................................................................ 24 Building the foundations of shared prosperity in Colombia: Recent trends in poverty, shared prosperity, and inequality .................................... 25 A decade of impressive poverty reduction ................................................................................ 25 Who and where are the poor in Colombia? .............................................................................. 27 More shared prosperity with reduction in inequality toward the end of the decade ........................ 30 The drivers behind the observed changes in poverty and inequality .............................. 32 Evaluating the dynamics of sources of income ......................................................................... 34 Understanding the sources of poverty reduction ........................................................................ 37 Understanding the sources of changes in inequality .................................................................. 39 Projecting future poverty incidence rates ................................................................................... 39 Final remarks ................................................................................................................... 41 Endnotes ......................................................................................................................... 42 References ....................................................................................................................... 43 Annex 1: Decomposing poverty reduction—The intra-sectorial effect versus the inter-sectorial effect ............................................................................................ 45 Annex 2: Typology of economic classes in Colombia .................................................... 46 Annex 3: Figures ............................................................................................................. 47 Annex 4: Main differences in methods for measuring poverty in Colombia .................. 50 Chapter 3. Structural Changes – Implications for Growth, Productivity, and Competitiveness ...............................................................................51 Main Messages ................................................................................................................ 52 Structural changes and growth dynamics ....................................................................... 54 Growth decomposition and productivity dynamics ..................................................................... 56 Growth at the regional level ................................................................................................... 62 Structural changes in international