Diagnosing the peso with Dutch Disease
An increasing amount of experts warn Colombia for the Dutch disease, claiming its growing export of natural resources is appreciating the country’s currency and negatively affecting other export sectors. While…
An increasing amount of experts warn Colombia for the Dutch disease, claiming its growing export of natural resources is appreciating the country’s currency and negatively affecting other export sectors. While…
The FARC have been pushed back at the beginning of the end of their old generation. The military defeats have a serious impact among its members, but while problems persist…
Virtually all Colombian beer brands are brewed by one company, Bavaria S.A. The SABMiller subsidiary holds 98% of the country’s beer market, not exactly a healthy environment to attempt competition.…
Since the time of La Violencia, negotiations between guerrilla groups (especially the FARC) and the government have mostly been ineffective, aside from a few successes in the early 1990s. As a…
Colombia is one of the CIVETS, a set of six developing nations in which investors see particularly interesting potential. To meet this potential, Colombia’s priority should be the establishment of…
Due to ease of travel, low costs of care, and familiarity of modern surroundings, and overall affluence, Cartagena, Colombia is emerging as medical tourism destination for North America [1]. Ease…
There is a hypothesis that economists call “The Impossible Trinity” or the “Trilemma,” which claims that countries cannot control the exchange rate of their currency, allow free capital movement, and…
When I lived in Bogota in 2009, authorities killed Pepe the Hippo, which was one the many exotic animals Pablo Escobar had in his personal zoo on his Napoles ranch…
Those who have discovered Colombia and are considering living or investing in the country should take a number of things into account before taking the big leap. Doing so will…