El bicentenario: 200 años de economía colombiana.

This article provides an overview of the Colombian economic history from the 18th to the 21st century, identifying booms in the export of commodities and their relationship with the structural transformation of the economy. For this, coffee growing was a determining factor since it represented the primary basis for this development; this activity not only streamlined an incipient manufacturing sector in the context of import substitution but also established the domestic market. Using secondary sources, it is concluded that after a fairly unpopular internal development model, with trade liberalization in the 1990s the new economic development model has relied on mining exports and oil & gas --which favor deindustrialization-- and focused the country's economy on the production of export commodities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]