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Title

Balance of payment vulnerability in terms of colombian external debt

Resumen

Producto de una indagación acerca de la vulnerabilidad de la balanza de pagos colombiana referida al problema de la deuda externa desde fines de la década pasada, a la luz de algunos indicadores de vulnerabilidad y dos ejercicios referidos a la sostenibilidad y la solvencia intertemporal. La evidencia empírica para Colombia sugiere inicialmente que no existe vulnerabilidad externa y la balanza de pagos presenta indicios de sostenibilidad tanto en el corto como en el largo plazo. Sin embargo, las elevadas tasas de interés real de la deuda externa requieren un mayor superávit de la balanza comercial, lo que implica un mayor esfuerzo exportador a lo que debe agregarse como condición necesaria, que el crecimiento que actualmente se experimenta sea sostenible.

Palabras clave

externa, sostenibilidad de la deuda, balanza de pagos, Colombia

Abstract

The most important goal of this article is to show the result of a research made into the vulnerability of the Colombian balance of payments in reference to the problem of the external debt since the end of the last decade, and in the light of some indicators of vulnerability and two exercises in reference to the sustainability as well as the inter-temporal solvency. lnitially, the Colombian empiric evidence suggests that there is no external vulnerability and the balance of payments gives evidence of sustainability in both the short and long term . However, the high interest rotes on the external debt demand a higher commercial balance surplus which in turn implies a larger export effort to keep present growth sustainable.

Keywords

external vulnerability, external debt sustainability, balance of payments, Colombia

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.19052/ed.373

Fecha de recepción

1 de septiembre de 2004

Fecha de aceptación

1 de diciembre de 2004

Fecha de publicación

January 2005

Licencia Creative Commons

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Tipo de documento

Artículo de investigación

Editorial

Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle

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