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Exports from free-trade zones from January through October in 2016 were 52.9% higher than the same period in 2015.

The new 6.48% rate is the lowest seen since November 2015 — and a huge drop from the 8.97% high in July.

The 2.0% figure is below the projections of most analysts in what is shaping up to be an even worse year than expected for Colombia's economy.

The inflation rate in Colombia has hit yet another 16-year high, rising to 8.97% in July compared to 8.60% in June. Consumer prices jumped much more than expected.

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...

According to DANE (Colombia Statistics Bureau) figures, the number of employed people increased 4.1% from March 2014, meaning that in the last year, 854,000 Colombians found jobs. This resulted in a maximum employment rate for any March since Colombia started tracking...

Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas said Tuesday that the unemployment rate for the country continues its downward trend, reaching 9.9% for the month of February, 2015. “The trend in unemployment continues to fall. The unemployment rate has stood at 9.9% in...