Colombia’s unemployment rose to 21.4% in May, despite efforts to reactivate the economy that was all but shut down in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, statistics agency DANE…
Colombia’s government is under increasing pressure from Congress and economists to stop serving private interests and implement a universal basic income to save the economy. The economic crisis caused by…
International institutions are increasingly somber about Colombia’s future as President Ivan Duque and his finance minister seem to have no response to the coronavirus crisis. The president and Finance Minister…
Colombia’s finance minister promised Congress on Tuesday he would look into the possibility of implementing a universal basic emergency income in response to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.…
The coronavirus pandemic triggered Colombia’s unemployment rate to skyrocket to 19.8% in April, a rate not measured since one of the country’s worst crises in history in 2000. April’s rate…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Monday that he would lift sales tax for three days, claiming this would stimulate a recovery of the economy that has been devastated by the…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said Saturday that he doesn’t believe he’ll allow international air travel “in the short term” amid failures to contain the coronavirus. In his daily Facebook live…
The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) supports an urgent guaranteed minimum income (GMI) as proposed in Colombia’s senate. The proposal was coined by some…
Almost half of Colombia’s senators signed off on a proposal to urgently implement a guaranteed minimum income for more than 70% of the population. The radical proposal would temporarily guarantee…