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Long-term effects of the Familias en Acción (Families in Action) program in Colombia

A recent research paper by Carlos Medina and Christian Posso, senior economists at Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia),…

Developments in the Systems of National Accounts and Financial Accounts

As of June 2021, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE in Spanish) and Banco de la República (the Central…

Recent Credit Performance in Colombia

Since 2009, the Financial Stability Department of Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia) has been conducting the…

Effective Tax Rates in Colombia

The Colombian tax system contains multiple reliefs and discounts and simultaneously supports a high degree of evasion. This implies that the…

Geographic Isolation and Rural Education

In Colombia, there is a gap in the quality of education between urban and rural households, which is caused by multiple factors. On the one hand,…