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Illustrated and annotated guide of the public sculptures and monuments located in 3 sectors of the city of Bogotá: Downtown (61); North (19); West (22). This is the first volume of an editorial project that will document the 500 works of public art patrimony that are part of the urban history of the capital city. The guide includes biographical notes of each featured artist, historic photographs on each sector and referential maps. Includes public art by noted 19th and 20th century artists and sculptors like Pietro Tenerani, Edgar Negret, Jim Amaral, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Otero,...

Este documento se centra sobre la pobreza en Colombia. Con una metodología de descomposición, se establecen características de la evolución de la pobreza en la década de los noventa, especialmente el aumento de 10% de la población pobre entre 1995 y 2000. Se presentan las características de los hogares pobres, y se encuentran los efectos de algunas variables sobre la probabilidad de encontrarse en condiciones de pobreza. Se miran algunos efectos básicos de las variables macroeconómicas sobre el nivel de la pobreza. Finalmente, se estima la magnitud del crecimiento económico y de la...

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.

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...