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Despite opinion polls declaring we are heading for Armageddon, we see various stakeholders increasing the GDP outlook.

For April, unemployment was 10.7% — down from 11.2% a year ago — and there was a 3.5% increase (785k) in the number of people working year over year

CPI may yet go higher, obviously not to those seen on the streets of Caracas or Buenos Aires, but only Chile (13.3%) amongst the mainstream Latam economies has higher inflation.

This is inflation week and September CPI is expected to be 0.78% (slowing slightly from 1.02% in August) with the 12m rate rising to 11.29%.

Emerging market central banks may have acted faster than those of the developed world, but it doesn't mean they have done enough.

The big question on most investors' lips is 'Does Colombia have inflation under control?'

In keeping with the recent macro data, consensus estimates on Colombian key economic indicators are continuing to edge higher.

There is little question that the country is going in the right direction, even the unemployment data for September was considerably better than expected.

Reportedly 100 new ideas have been added to Colombia's second attempt at tax reform this year, and four original provisions have already been axed.

The negative outlook reflects downside risks to the economic growth outlook and uncertainties about the capacity of the government's policy response to decisively cut deficits and stabilize and eventually lower debt in the coming years, following the sharp rise in general...