Multinational NGO’s are visiting Colombia to urge the country’s leaders to abandon controversial treaties that seek to protect foreign investment. Over the past decades, Colombia’s previous governments signed multiple investor…
Statistics indicating the origin of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Colombia and its destination between 1994 and 2020.
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque arrived in China on Sunday where he highlighted his quest to boost exports and Chinese investment, avoiding any controversy over Venezuela. The president, accompanied by ministers…
Foreign direct investment in Colombia went up almost 5% in 2017, the country’s central bank announced on Tuesday. Companies from 46 countries invested a total of $14.5 billion last year…
US oil company Hupecol Operating has sued Colombia for banning fracking near one of the country’s most unique ecosystems, the Caño Cristales river, according to local media. The Houston-based company…
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Colombia increased 15.8% in 2016, almost entirely because of the $2 billion sale of energy company Isagen to Canadian asset manager Brookfield. Total FDI went from…
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has expressed interest in financing a project to make Colombia’s Magdalena River more navigable, the government said on Tuesday. Cormagdalena, the government agency supervising work…
Several multi-nationals have terminated operations in Colombia since 2015 amid an ongoing economic downturn in the South American country.
A peace deal with FARC rebels could triple foreign direct investment in Colombia and boost its potential economic growth from 4% to 5.9%, according to the government’s planning department DNP.