Buyback of Colombian Sovereign Debt

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331
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Clasificación JEL: 
E31
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Colombian Sovereign Debt

At a request from the Ministry of Finance, Banco de la República last year carried out an investigation into the feasibility to use parts of the foreign reserves to buy back some of Colombia’s outstanding sovereign U.S.-dollar debt. This project resulted