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    Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) is required by the Constitution to maintain the purchasing power of Colombia’s currency in coordination with general economic policy1. In order to fulfill this mandate, the Central Bank of Colombia’s Board of Directors…

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    The Board of Directors of the Central Bank, as per the provisions of Article 5 of Law 31 of 1992, submits a report to the Congress of the Republic that describes the macroeconomic performance for the first half of 2019 and its prospects for the remainder of the year. The last two chapters report…

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    Macroeconomic Summary

    Recent data on economic activity, inflation and the job market suggest their trends have been in line with the technical staff's assessment of the state of the economy and how it is expected to evolve, characterized by a slump in demand and the persistence of…

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    In Colombia, as well as in the rest of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has seriously damaged the health and well-being of the people. In order to limit the damage, local and national authorities have had to order large sectors of the population to be confined at their homes for long periods of…

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    Vis-a-vis the beginning of the pandemic some months ago, the real and financial dimensions of the macroeconomic outlook have been better outlined, although uncertainty remains very high and several of its sources are still present. On the one hand, the duration of the effects of the pandemic and…

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    Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) is required by the Constitution to maintain the purchasing power of Colombia’s currency in coordination with general economic policy1. In order to fulfill this mandate, the Central Bank of Colombia’s Board of Directors…

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    With the Payment Systems Report, every year, the Central Bank of Colombia provides a thorough overview of the local financial market infrastructure.

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    The Colombian Constitution and Law 31/1992 (Article 14) assigned Banco de la República a mandate to manage Colombia’s foreign reserves. Likewise, they also stipulate that the criteria to manage foreign reserves are safety, liquidity, and return. The purpose of this report is to explain how…
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    The Board of Directors of the Central Bank, as per the provisions of Article 5 of Law 31 of 1992, submits a report to the Congress of the Republic that describes the macroeconomic performance for the first half of 2019 and its prospects for the remainder of the year. The last two chapters report…

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    The main purposes of the first Report that the de Board of Directors of Banco de la República (BDBR) submits to Congress at the beginning of its regular meetings each year are: to examine the performance of the country's economy during the immediately preceding year; to explain the actions for…

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    Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) is required by the Constitution to maintain the purchasing power of Colombia’s currency in coordination with general economic policy1. In order to fulfill this mandate, the Central Bank of Colombia’s Board of Directors…

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    As per its constitutional mandate, Banco de la República must ensure that the purchasing power of the currency is maintained in coordination with the general economic policy1.

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    Monetary Policy in Colombia

    As per its constitutional mandate, Banco de la República must ensure that the purchasing power of the currency is maintained in coordination with the general economic policy1. In order to fulfill this mandate, the Board of Direc­tors of…

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    Editor’s Note

    Banco de la República is currently in the process of modernizing its Inflation Report with the goal of communicating an analysis of economic conditions and forecasts for the economy in a better way. For that reason, as of the October edition, the report will be structured as…

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    Find information on the economic activity of eight regions of the country during the third quarter of the year in the most recent Regional Economic Bulletins (Boletines Económicos Regionales, BER).

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    Presentation delivered at the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogotá on 12 August 2019, transmitted on the Institutional Channel (channel 9 on national television). During the event, the Governor pointed out the most important sections of the

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    Introduction

    In an environment of greater restrictions to world trade and deterioration of global confidence, economic growth for the first quarter of the year in a number of emerging economies including Colombia was lower than expected, and the forecasts for 2019 decreased.

    In the first…

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    One of the main functions of Banco de la República is to further the safe and efficient functioning of the payment systems, a job it carries out by providing banking services to financial institutions. These include access to payment systems and to trading, clearing, and custody of government…

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    Global economy continued to recover in the fourth quarter of 2013, thanks to the added momentum in the developed economies, especially the United States. In the euro area, the economic indicators pointed to low, but positive economic growth. Growth in the major emerging countries of Asia and…

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    In September 2012 annual change in the consumer price index (CPI), core inflation measures, expectations at different horizons and inflation forecast for December stood around the mid-point of the target range (3%). At the end of the third quarter annual inflation stood at 3.08%, down by 12…