dc.audience	Policymakers	eng
dc.audience	Researchers	eng
dc.audience	Teachers	eng
dc.audience	Students	eng
dc.coverage.sucursal	Bogotá	spa
dc.creator	Office of the Deputy Technical Governor
dc.creator	Office for Monetary Policy and Economic Information
dc.creator	Programming and Inflation Department
dc.creator	Inflation Section
dc.creator	Macroeconomic Programming Section
dc.creator	Forecasting Process Management Section
dc.creator	Macroeconomic Modeling Department
dc.creator	Forecasting Section
dc.creator	Models and Capacities Development Section
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-03T23:42:56Z	spa
dc.date.available	2024-05-03T23:42:56Z	spa
dc.date.created	2024-05-03	spa
dc.description.abstract	Inflation continues to fall, but it is above the 3% target, and it is projected to continue falling until it reaches it in 2025. Economic growth is low, but it would recover, and by 2025, economic activity would reach a path that can be sustained over time without causing unwanted changes in inflation, employment, or the external balance. The current monetary policy interest rate is compatible with the convergence of inflation to the target in 2025 and with the recovery of economic growth in the next two years. • Annual inflation has been decreasing for a year and is projected to continue, with inflation at 5.5% in December and the 3% target to be reached in 2025. In March, total inflation was 7.4% and completed a year of reductions from the maximum recorded a year ago (13.3%). In the first quarter of this year, all the main components of inflation fell (food, services, goods, and regulated). • The decrease in inflation has been greater than expected due to the behavior of food prices and some goods. • The lower pressures of the exchange rate on prices, the slowdown in demand, and the completion of adjustments in fuel prices contributed to reducing inflation. • The reduction in inflation has been limited by the rise in some service rates, largely because several of these were updated with the high inflation observed (what is known as indexing). • The accumulated effect of monetary policy actions, weak demand in the presence of excess productive capacity of the economy, and an exchange rate behavior that would continue to exert downward pressures on prices will continue to contribute to the decrease in inflation and its convergence towards the 3% target. • There are some risks that could reduce inflation more slowly than projected, such as possible pent-up increases in public services and transport rates, an unexpected increase in the exchange rate and/or adverse weather conditions that affect food prices. The economy would recover in 2024, and by the end of the following year, it would reach a path that would not cause unwanted changes in inflation, employment, or the country’s external balance. • After the significant economic growth in 2022 (7.3%) that placed the GDP at high levels, the expansion of economic activity for 2023 was 0.6%. In the first quarter of 2024, the economy would have improved compared to what was observed at the end of 2023, driven by high levels of activity in the agricultural sector that reflect the high supply recorded in these months. • The necessary adjustment of economic activity occurred amid the accumulated effects of monetary policy actions to combat high inflation, high external financing costs, and low levels in businessmen’s and consumers’ confidence indicators. • The labor market continues to show unemployment rates at low levels compared to its history, although with deteriorations in employment in recent months. • Going forward, economic activity would continue to recover. This would occur in an environment of less restrictive external financing conditions, and reductions in the monetary policy interest rate, as inflation gradually approaches the 3% target. o For 2024, economic growth of 1.4% is projected, driven by consumption and despite a weak expected investment performance. o For 2025, growth would be 3.2%, with consumption that would continue to improve, an investment that would recover from the very low levels of 2024, and a gradual recovery of exports. • The lower growth of the Colombian economy has been reflected in a reduction of the broad external imbalance observed in 2022, which results in less vulnerability to changes in international conditions. Given the decline in inflation and its expectations, the slowing of domestic demand, and a more sustainable external balance, the Board of Directors of the Banco de la República decided at its April meeting to continue the monetary policy interest rate reductions, bringing it to 11.75%. • The stance of monetary policy has contributed to ameliorating the country’s macroeconomic imbalances, such as high inflation, excess spending and credit, and the wide external deficit. • In the context of decreasing inflation and adjusting some macroeconomic imbalances, the Board of Directors began to reduce the monetary policy interest rate from December 2023, with a total reduction of 150 basis points by April. • The current monetary policy interest rate is compatible with inflation, reaching the 3% target in 2025 and sustainable economic growth over time. Box 1 - Un indicador de los servicios de transporte para medir la actividad económica colombiana Autores: Karen L. Pulido-Mahecha, Juan Sebastián Silva-Rodríguez y Juan Felipe Carmona-Pascuales Box 2 - Evolución reciente y perspectivas de la inversión Autores: Camilo López, Andrés Herrera, Nicol Rodríguez y Sebastián Quintero Box 3 - Evaluación del error de pronóstico macroeconómico de 2023 Autores: Jonathan Alexander Muñoz Martínez y Julián Mauricio Pérez Amaya	eng
dc.format.extent	páginas : gráficas, tablas	spa
dc.format.mimetype	PDF	spa
dc.identifier.handle	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/10789	spa
dc.identifier.uri	https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/10789	spa
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	Banco de la República	spa
dc.relation.anxdoi	https://doi.org/10.32468/inf-pol-mont-eng.excel1.tr2-2024	spa
dc.relation.anxshortdoi	https://doi.org/mt55	spa
dc.relation.doi	https://doi.org/10.32468/inf-pol-mont-eng.tr2-2024	spa
dc.relation.doi	https://doi.org/10.32468/inf-pol-mont-eng.box1.tr2-2024
dc.relation.doi	https://doi.org/10.32468/inf-pol-mont-eng.box2.tr2-2024
dc.relation.doi	https://doi.org/10.32468/inf-pol-mont-eng.box3.tr2-2024
dc.relation.ispartof	Reportes, Boletines e Informes	spa
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Monetary Policy Report	spa
dc.relation.isversionof	Monetary Policy Report - April 2024	eng
dc.relation.portal	https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/bitstream/handle/20.500.12134/10789/monetary-policy-april-2024.pdf	spa
dc.relation.shortdoi	https://doi.org/mt55	spa
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dc.rights.accessRights	Open Access	eng
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dc.rights.spa	Acceso abierto	spa
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	eng
dc.subject	Bancos centrales	spa
dc.subject	Crecimiento económico	spa
dc.subject	Alimentos	spa
dc.subject	Precios	spa
dc.subject	Colombia	spa
dc.subject.brtema	5. Precios, inflación y política monetaria	spa
dc.subject.jel	E31 - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation	eng
dc.subject.jel	E39 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Other	eng
dc.subject.jel	E30 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General	eng
dc.subject.keyword	Central banks	eng
dc.subject.keyword	Economic growth	eng
dc.subject.keyword	Foods	eng
dc.subject.keyword	Prices	eng
dc.subject.keyword	Colombia	eng
dc.subject.lemb	Banco de la República (Bogotá) -- 2024 -- Informes	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Inflación -- Colombia -- 2024 -- Informes	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Política monetaria -- Colombia -- 2024 -- Informes	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Balanza de pagos -- Colombia -- 2024 -- Informes	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Producto interno bruto -- Colombia -- 2024 -- Informes	spa
dc.title	Monetary Policy Report - April 2024	eng
dc.type	Report	eng
dc.type.hasversion	Published Version	eng
dc.type.spa	Informe	spa

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