## Colombia: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 9, 2005_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 9, 2005
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451808865.002

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### 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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