Colombia: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation
IMF Staff Country Reports, May 9, 2005
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- Colombia: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation
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Bibliographic details
- Published: May 9, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451808865.002
Executive summary and macroeconomic outcomes
- Paper covers: 2005 Article IV Consultation, Fourth Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria.
- Real economic growth recovered to 4 percent a year in 2003–04.
- National unemployment rate declined from 20 percent at end-2000 to 12 percent at end-2004.
Financial sector health and banking system
- The health of the financial system continued to improve.
- The solvency and profitability of the banking system have recovered, reflecting:
- economic growth,
- a successful recapitalization scheme,
- improved supervision.
Policy themes and areas of focus (as identified in document metadata)
- Economic sectors
- External debt
- Inflation
- Inflation targeting
- Monetary policy
- Prices
- Public debt
- Public sector
Keywords and technical terms included in the report
- central bank, CR, deficit, exchange rate, foreign currency, Global, government, government institution, Inflation, inflation expectation, Inflation targeting, ISCR, oil price windfall, opportune intervention, private sector, Public sector, SDR, U.S. dollar
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- _cr05154 — IMF Staff Report