PESTLE Analysis of Colombia 2012

Published September 2012

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Background:
Colombia’s economic growth is primarily driven by private consumption and exports. The
government is promoting export by negotiating FTA with many countries and trade regions. The
economy experienced moderate growth during 2006-2011 and is forecast to witness good growth
over 2012-2017 and reach an estimated $451.6 billion by 2017.
Lucintel, a leading global management consulting and market research firm, makes a concise
study and an insightful analysis on Colombia's political, economic, social environments and
business risks and presents its findings in "PESTLE Analysis of Colombia 2012."

The R&D sector is expected to witness significant growth because of the government's emphasis
on increased investment. The government also lays a great emphasis on stabilizing the
macroeconomy and controlling inflation in the development plan.

Lucintel has identified that high crime rate, drug trafficking, and heavy dependency on oil export
are the major growth challengers. Strong foreign exchange reserve, good business environment,
highly educated leading to skilled labor pool, and young population are the drivers providing the
economy with a competitive advantage.

This Lucintel research report provides a concise overview of the PESTLE analysis of Colombia. It
is an insight to the trend analysis of Colombia’s position in terms of GDP, pricing regulation, FDI,
consumption, saving, and investment, government policy agenda, sectoral contribution,
demographic analysis, labor market, social development index, technology policy, and corporate,
tax, and environment laws. This study also provides up-to-date information on the market share,
profit margins, capabilities, and strategies of the leaders. The report helps current suppliers
realistically assess their capabilities, strategies, vis-a-vis leading competitors. It is designed to
provide executives with strategically significant competitor information, data analysis, and insight,
critical to the development and implementation of effective marketing and sales plan.

This unique report from Lucintel will provide you with valuable information, insights, and tools
needed to identify new growth opportunities and operate your business successfully in this
market. This report will save hundreds of hours of your own personal research time and will
significantly benefit you in expanding your business in this market. In today’s stringent economy,
you need every advantage that you can find.

Features of This Report:

To make business, investment, and strategic decisions, you need timely, useful information. This
market report fulfills this core need and is an indispensable reference guide for multinational
materials suppliers, product manufacturers, investors, executives, distributors, and many more
that operate in this market.

Some of the features of “PESTLE Analysis of Colombia 2012” include:

• Trend and forecast of real GDP growth rate of Colombia
• Trend of savings and investments as well as consumption expenditure in percentage of GDP
of Colombia

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• Trend of consumption expenditure as percentage of GDP in Colombia

• Trend of growth of population and unemployment rate in Colombia
• R&D and technological factor of Colombia 2012

More than 18 figures/charts and 12 tables are provided in this roughly 60-page report.
Sample charts with random data are presented below

Trend of Real Growth Rate 2001-

Forecast of Real GDP Growth
2011 - Random Data
Rate Random Data

Real GDP Growth Rate (%)

GDP Growth Rate(%)

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

GDP(2011) Sectoral Contribution: Trend of Saving and Investments

US $Billion - Random Data as Percentage of GDP - Random
Data
Share of Saving & Investments In GDP(%)

Agriculture

Industry

Services

Saving ( Gross National Savings)

Investments ( Gross Capital Formation)

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Trend of Colombia's International Trend of Consumption

Trade Structure - Random Data Expenditure as Percentage of
GDP - Random Data

Sharre of Consumption Expenditure in

Exports
Govermment
Foreign Trade (US $Billion)

Consumption
Expenditure

Imports

GDP(%)
Private
Consumption
Expenditure

Trade
Final
balance
Consumption
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Expenditure

2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
FDI Inflows by Industry -Random Data
Foregin Direct Investment
by Industry (US $Million)

2008 2009 2010 2011

Other Services Mining and Quarrying

Manufacturing Construction
Wholesale and Retail Trade Financial Activities
Information and Communication Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Total FDI

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Competitive analysis Resource and inventory management

Budgeting Investment decisions

Research Methodology:
Lucintel has been closely tracking and conducting research on and for the composites and other
segments since 1998. This research project was designed for the purposes of determining the
investment opportunities in Colombia. To determine the industries and Metro which are having
sufficient opportunities. In order to ensure fairness with our analysis, we compared several
factors in order to align the current performance and, more importantly, the future prospects.

This study is a culmination of 7 months of full-time effort performed by Lucintel's analyst team.
Our analysts used the following sources for the creation and completion of this valuable report:
• Political, Economic, Social, Technological and legal analysis of Colombia economy.
• In-depth secondary research from financial statements and annual reports of the Colombia
National Bank
• Extensive search of current published literature, market and database information including
industry news, company press releases, and customer intentions.
A compilation of the experiences, judgments, and insights of Lucintel's professional network, who
have analyzed and tracked the economic study of the country.

Lucintel collects a significant amount of uninterpreted data from a variety of sources and converts
this into intelligent data as follows. The intelligent data is used by our clients for making confident
business decisions. The figure below is a graphical representation of the end-to-end Lucintel
research process.

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Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary

2. Colombia's Political Analysis

2.1: Structure and stability of government
2.2: Government policy agenda
2.2.1: Political agenda

3. Colombia's Economic Analysis

3.1: Sectoral contribution to GDP and real GDP growth rate
3.2: Pricing trends - inflation and interest rates
3.3: Consumption, saving, and investment trends
3.4: International trade and its contribution to GDP
3.5: Foreign direct investment by industry

4. Colombia's Social Analysis

4.1: Social and demographic analysis
4.2: Labor market
4.3: Social development index

5. Colombia's R&D and Technological Factors

5.1: R&D expenditure in Colombia
5.2: Impact of technology in industry
5.3: Technology policy

6. Colombia's Legal Analysis

6.1: Corporate law
6.2: Tax law
6.3: Recent economic policies
6.4: Doing business in Colombia 2012

7. Colombia's Environment Analysis

7.1: Government action against environmental issues
7.2: Environmental policy

8. Colombia's SWOT Analysis

List of Figures
Chapter 3. Colombia’s Economic Analysis
Figure 3.1: Trend of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.2: Forecast of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.3: Quarterly trend of GDP growth rate and IIP
Figure 3.4: Trend of per capita income
Figure 3.5: GDP sectoral contribution
Figure 3.6: Share of different sectors to GDP
Figure 3.7: Quarterly trend of inflation and interest rate

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Figure 3.8: Annual trend of inflation and interest rate

Figure 3.9: Trend of savings and investments as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.10: Trend of consumption expenditure as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.11: Trend of Colombia’s international trade
Figure 3.12: Trend of exports and imports as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.13: Foreign direct investment by industry

Chapter 4. Colombia’s Social Analysis

Figure 4.1: Geographical location of Colombia
Figure 4.2: Trend of population and population growth rate
Figure 4.3: Population age structure by 2017
Figure 4.4: Trend of unemployment rate in Colombia

Chapter 5. Colombia R&D and Technological Factor

Figure 5.1: Trend of R&D expenditure in Colombia

List of Tables

Chapter 1. Executive Summary

Table 1.1: Factors affecting business in Colombia

Chapter 2. Colombia's Political Analysis

Table 2.1: Political factors and its impact on business

Chapter 3. Colombia’s Economic Analysis

Table 3.1: FDI limits by industry
Table 3.2: Economic factors and its impact on business

Chapter 4. Colombia’s Social Analysis

Table 4.1: Corruption, GINI, and Human Development Index
Table 4.2: Social Factors and Its Impact on Business

Chapter 5. Colombia R&D and Technological Factor

Table 5.1: Technological factors and its impact on business

Chapter 6. Colombia's Legal Analysis

Table 6.1: Income tax slab of Colombia
Table 6.2: Indicators for starting business
Table 6.3: Ranking for procedures of starting business
Table 6.4: Legal factors and its impact on business

Chapter 7. Colombia's Environment Analysis

Table 7.1: Environmental factors and its impact on business

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