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The loan, which has a 20-year term and an LIBOR-based interest rate, is specifically marked to help encourage private investments.

Rafael Pardo says the government wants to speed up private-sector investment in schools, health centers, roads, water infrastructure, and sanitation projects.

The sector has grown 6.3% on average each quarter for the past five years and that this trend will continue in the short term.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in collaboration with the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), is launching a call for research proposals by individual researchers and scholars in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The deadline to submit...

Parque Arauco S.A. (SSE: PARAUCO) (Bloomberg: PARAUCO:CI) announced that last month it completed the acquisition of the remaining 45% equity interest in Inversiones Inmobiliarias Arauco Alameda S.A.S (“IARA”), paying Grupo Bancolombia (“Bancolombia”) COP 222,489 million. Parque...

The 10th edition of Bogota’s principal real estate convention kicks off the 24th of September in the Corferias convention complex, in conjunction with La Lonja Propiedad Raíz de Bogotá (a Lonja is equivalent to a board of realty, or Realtor’s association). Over the four days of...

Colombia’s Cementos Argos (“Argos”), the fifth largest producer of cement in Latin America, and the second largest in the southeast of the United States with operations in Colombia, Central America, the US and the Caribbean, announced the acquisition of one of...

In the last two years, the construction sector has grown 9% as a part of the Colombian economy. According to the Colombian Construction Chamber of Commerce (Camacol) estimates, building construction used $28.5 billion in products and services, over 40% more than in 2010; evidence...

Based on a private report released in November 2014 by the global research firm Everest Group, Cali, Colombia does not necessarily receive the attention it deserves as an ideal global services delivery destination. More famous for its world class salsa scene, its “La Sexta” party...

Dayton Superior Corporation, an Ohio based international supplier chemicals, devices and accessories to the commercial and industrial cement construction industry, has announced today that the company will expand their operations in Bogota, Colombia. The company will move to...