Invierta en Colombia - Trabajo, Compromiso e Ingenio

Why to invest in Colombia?

Colombia, guarantee of a sure and profitable investment …

• The top three global rating agencies, Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch, ensure that Colombia is a safe country to invest, by giving the country an investment grade.
• Likewise, the World Bank (Doing Business 2011) of 183 countries classifies Colombia as the fifth country in the world and first in Latin America that most protects investors.
• According to the report made by The Independent newspaper in the United Kingdom, Colombia is ranked as one of the two new countries in Latin America with the best prospects for investment and development.
• Additional, the International Institute for Managment Development (IMD), classifies Colombia as second in Latin America under terms of personal safety and suitable protection of the private property.

With strong public commitments in the incentives offer for the investment and stability for the installed business …

• Between the most competitive Duty-free zones of Latin America.
• Colombia offers Contracts of Juridical Stability to guarantee the projects of investment.

With an excellent economic supported performance that guarantees a managerial competitive environment and a domestic attractive market …

• The average growth of the Colombian PIB in the last decade has been significantly superior to the world average.
• In 2009, while the world PIB was decreasing, the Colombian economy was continuing growing and in 2010 it overcame the expectations of growth of the world economy.
• According to the report of the HSBC on the projections of growth of the economies of the world for 2050, Colombia appears between 30 better positions in the classification.
• With 46,9 million inhabitants, Colombia is the third country in terms of population in Latin America, count with the 24 population of the planet, fourth in Latin America and the second Spanish-speaking major one in the world.
• The PIB Per capita has doubled in the last six years.

Offering an exporting platform with preferential access to 1.500 million consumers …

• Colombia advances 11 agreements of free trade (TLC) with 48 countries, achieving a preferential access to more than 1.500 million consumers.
• Since 2003, the Colombian exports have trebled.
• In terms of Globalization, The Globalization Index 2010 of Ernest and Young locates Colombia in 3 position in Latin America, overcoming world economies as Japan, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia.
• 5 ports of high place penetrated towards the Pacific Ocean and The Atlantic Ocean which allow to accede with more facility to international markets.

A strategic location to do business …

• Colombia is in the center of 5 hourly zones and shares the hourly zone with important central business districts as New York, Toronto and Miami.

Human resources necessary for an ideal managerial performance …

• According to the International Institute for Managment Development (IMD), Colombia is the second country with the major availability of qualified workforce, with the most effective labor relations and the labor regulation that less hinder the business activities in the region.
• Additional, in agreement to PriceWaterHouseCoopers's report of 2009, Colombia possesses the most productive workforce of South America.
• This is reflected in the young population and with talent, which offers to the labor market 1.656.689 competitive professionals.

Infrastructure and sufficient connectivity for world height operations…

• Colombia has 5 submarine cables that generate a bandwidth of more than 550 Gbps.
• Colombia is an exporting country of energy, which assures sufficient internal power for operations of great importance.
• The principal cities have 100 % of coverage in optical fiber.

And multiple growth points with opportunities differentiated for the investment …

• Colombia is a country of regions and opportunities differentiated for the investment. Unlike other Latin-American countries, in Colombia there are 10 metropolitan cities / areas with population superior to 500.000 inhabitants.
• Thanks to the diversity of conditions (climate, flora and fauna, development, location, etc.), every region of the country offers opportunities differentiated for the development of the different industrial sectors.

Colombia offers the major biological diversity as well as great diversity of thermal floors …

• By square meter Colombia is the first country with major diversity (plants, mammals and birds) according to Earth Trends.
• Colombia possesses more than 50.000 vegetable known species, where 36 % are endemic, positioning it as the second country of major diversity floristic worldwide.
• Colombia is located in the tropic zone for this reason possesses diversity of thermal floors with heights over the level of the sea propitiating the existence of diverse ecosystems, as natural forests, areas of grassland, arid zones, wetlands, beaks of snow between others.

Highlighting Colombia as a country with good quality of life and an opened and flexible culture …

• In Colombia exist three universities in the top 30 of Latin America, 26 schools inscribed in the SAT Reasoning Test and 19 to the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO).
• Shops of luxury and more than 45 golf courses of 18 available holes to play all the year. Many of these fields have been designed by architects as Nicklaus and Mark Mahannah.

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