Financial inclusion has been one of the key pillars of Colombia's development strategy for anumber of years. Financial …

This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against … service export baskets. Technological progress and specialization in trade in services may offer diversification options for …

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …

Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they … complexity of the export basket. We identify five priority areas for policies: (1) reduction of trade costs, at and behind the …

direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. Although the issue is still far from …

regime of nominal exchange rate bands. Initial conditions in Colombia contrast sharply with those of other cases in which …

This paper focuses on monetary and exchange rate policies in Colombia, with particular emphasis on the period 1999 … of reductions in the reference rates of the Central Bank of Colombia is also assessed. We find that a lower central bank … Taylor rules in an open-economy framework for Colombia …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the macroeconomic adjustment in Chile,Colombia, and Peru to commodity …

weak performance of Colombia's manufacturing sector in recent years. This paper examines the effects of the real exchange … rate, external and domestic demand, and structural changes on firms' profitability in Colombia's manufacturing sector … between 2000 and 2012. While export intensive companies have suffered lower profit growth with real exchange rate appreciation …