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The IMF projection is in line with the 2.9% prediction issued last week by the World Bank.

Looking further ahead, the World Bank has forecast Colombian GDP to increase by 3.4% in both 2019 and 2020.

Improving credit conditions and economic growth have led to a stable outlook in 2018 for Latin American and the Caribbean.

“Our partnership with Convexus is a key factor in expanding our investment in Latin America going forward,” said Yaron Hertz of NICE.

"We have a lot of noise in Colombia — I think it will explode in the next 24 months," says Raúl Rodríguez of NICE Systems.

Last July, the IMF forecasted Colombia's GDP to grow by 3.0% in 2017. In October, that figure fell to 2.7% then, in April, it was cut again to 2.3%. Now it sits at 2.0%.

"Latin American economies remain vulnerable to a sharp deceleration in the Chinese economy and its knock-on effects in commodity prices," said Rui J. Pereira of Fitch Ratings.

"Corporates have been negatively affected by elevated interest rates in several countries and rising taxes," said Paula Bunn of Fitch Ratings.

Giving state and city governments in Latin America more autonomy to manage their own sources of tax revenue could promote greater local development and efficiency, according to a new study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The study, Decentralizing Revenue in Latin...

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...