Colombia: Selected Issues Paper

May 4, 2010

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Colombia: Selected Issues Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 24, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Colombia shows that achieving investment grade status would help lower financing costs for the sovereign, and expand the pool of potential buyers of the Colombian economy. Colombia’s debt levels as of end-2008 were broadly similar to the average for investment grade emerging markets, suggesting that other indicators are taken into account in rating agencies’ assessments. A stronger process of fiscal consolidation that results in a significant decline in public sector debt could help compensate the structural weaknesses.

Subject: Credit, Domestic debt, External debt, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial soundness indicators, Money, Public debt

Keywords: Bank credit, Banking system, CR, Credit, Credit growth, Debt, Debt indicator, Domestic debt, East Asia, Financial soundness indicators, GDP, GDP growth, Global, ISCR, Medium term debt goal

Publication Details

Pages:

39
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2010/106
Stock No:

1COLEA2010002
ISBN:

9781455202652
ISSN:

1934-7685

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