Colombia's Central Bank Turning Eyes to Growth as Economy Slows
- Central bank co-director Adolfo Meisel speaks in interview
- Maintaining GDP growth at 3% is bank's `biggest challenge'
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Colombia’s tightening monetary policy shouldn’t push growth below 3 percent, central bank co-director Adolfo Meisel said, as the price of oil, the main country’s export, tumbles in global markets.
“Maintaining growth is the biggest challenge,” Meisel said Wednesday in an interview at his office in Bogota. “You don’t achieve 3 percent just through will-power.”