The favorable conditions for investing in Colombia worsened last February, both economically and sociopolitically. This is clear from the most recent Fedesarrollo Business Opinion Survey, which this time contains a module on investor perspectives in the country.
(Employment, inflation and fiscal stability: challenges for growth).
The results show that 24.4% of those surveyed believe that the current economic conditions are unfavorable, compared to 26.7% of the previous measurement.
For your part18.4% of the entrepreneurs consider that the current conditions are favorable compared to 21.6% of the previous measurement, and 57.2% affirm that they are neutral, compared to 51.7% in the previous measurement.
Likewise, Fedesarrollo points out that the balance on the favorable socio-political conditions to invest was -38.9%, reflecting a decrease of -13.8 pps compared to the previous quarter.
The results show that 7.8% of those surveyed believe that sociopolitical conditions are favorable compared to 10.3% dand the previous measurement.
On the other hand, 46.6% of businessmen state that the current conditions are unfavorable compared to 35.4% in the previous measurement, and 45.6% affirm that they are neutral, compared to 54.3% in the previous measurement.
Apart from announcing the economic and sociopolitical conditions for investment, the entity revealed the results of its February Business Opinion Survey.
There it is evident that the Commercial Confidence Index stood at 37.4%, which means a drop of 2.1 pps compared to the previous month.
“The decrease in confidence was mainly explained by an increase of 6.5 pps in the level of inventories. Similarly, there was a slight drop of 0.2 pps in the indicator of current economic perception of companies in the sector, which was offset by an increase of 0.4 pps in the indicator of economic expectations for the next six months. ”, he explained.
Meanwhile, the Industrial Confidence Index reached 15.5%, with an increase of 2.8 pps when compared to the indicator of the previous month.
In particular, the 3.7 pps increase in production expectations for the next quarter stands out as the factor that most influenced the good performance of this Index.
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