Hard-discount stores are a retail innovation that has brought significant changes to Colombia’s commercial landscape. Operating under well-known…
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Blog BanRep: 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),…
Blog BanRep: 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…
Blog BanRep: 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…
Blog BanRep: 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,…
