Colombia: a country study
The fifth edition of Colombia: A Country Study supersedes the 1990 edition edited by Dennis M. Hanratty and Sandra W. Meditz. The authors acknowledge general background information that the 1990 edition and earlier editions may have provided for the present volume, which is, however, a completely new edition.
The book editor would like to thank the authorial team for their dedication to producing authoritative new material. The authors are grateful to individuals in various agencies of the Colombian and U.S. governments and international organizations, including nongovernmental organizations, as well as scholars affiliated with universities or other institutions, who offered their time, expertise, or research facilities and materials to provide information and perspective. None of these individuals is, however, in any way responsible for the work or points of view of the authors. The authors gratefully acknowledge any assistance, including chap- ter-review comments made by other chapter authors. The book editor is particularly indebted to Dr. David Bushnell.
The book editor would also like to acknowledge the contributions to an early draft of chapter 2 made by Dr. Marta Juanita Villaveces Nino of the Economics Department of the University of El Rosario, Bogota. The authors of chapter 3, Drs. Roberto Steiner and Hernan Vallejo would like to thank two individuals in particular for helpful comments on their chapter: Professor Miguel Urrutia of Los Andes University (Uniandes), Bogota; and Dr. Arturo Galindo, adviser, Ministry of Finance, Colombia. The author of Chapter 5, Dr. Ann C. Mason, would like to thank the following experts for their invaluable research assistance: Catalina Arreaza of the Political Science Department at Uniandes; Sebastian Bitar, School of Government at Uni- andes; and Mauricio Vargas of the Colombian government's National Planning Department (DNP). For their expert review of, and significant contributions to, various sections of the chapter,
Dr. Mason is also grateful to Jaime Camacho of El Rosario University; Maria Victoria Llorente of the Center for Economic Development at Uniandes; Roman Ortiz of the Political Science Department at Uniandes; security consultant David Spencer; and Professor Arlene Tickner, also of the Political Science Department faculty at Uniandes.
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