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Local and regional governments (LRGs) in Brazil and Colombia should face similar challenges from the decline in commodities prices and their importance to their economies, according to Fitch Ratings. LRGs in Colombia and Brazil suffer from high numbers of informal workers (those...

Last Sunday, global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney released its 2016 Global Services Location Index (GSLI), an annual report researched by the firm that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide based on metrics in three categories: financial...

Colombia’s unemployment rate dropped in November to 7.3%, announced Minhacienda, Colombia’s Finance Ministry, along with statistics agency DANE yesterday. The new rate reflects a drop of 0.4 percentage points over the 2014 statistic. The rate in the 13 largest cities was measured...

Yesterday, President Juan Manuel Santos, along with Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas and Labor Minister Luis Eduardo Garzón, signed into law Decreto (Decree) 2552 of 2015, setting the Colombian monthly minimum wage at $689,455 pesos. This power was given to the executive branch...

2015 was characterized by economic deceleration and a general market uncertainty attributed to factors such as the Colombian peso’s devaluation, the fall in petroleum prices globally, a higher rate of inflation, the rise in interest rates, peace process negotiations, and the high...

The Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia), the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for Central Banks Program (BCC) at the Graduate Institute, and the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) are jointly organizing a conference on Policy Lessons and...

At its October meeting, the Board of the Central Bank decided by majority to give a 50-bp hike to the repo rate to 5.25%. This adjustment was above our expectation and market consensus, which aimed at a 25-bp increase. In addition, the Bank reactivated auctions of FX call options...

Bogotá’s Club El Nogal will be the host of the 3rd annual Leadership Encounter sponsored by the Colombian Presidents’ Forum, named “Leaders that inspire actions of change.”  The event, September 30 from 7am to 1pm, seeks to bring together the most successful professionals and...

Based on statistics available through March of 2015, Colombia’s industrial sector has experienced a negative annualized growth rate through the previous four quarters, led downward by the petroleum sector. This has resulted in decreased tax revenues for municipal and state...

Colombia’s Finance Ministry (Minhacienda) head Mauricio Cardenas said Tuesday at Bogotá’s Bloomberg Conference that the government will propose a national budget of “Intelligent Austerity”—belt tightening in public sector spending, and supporting private sector growth into a...