This comparatively benign situation reflects Colombia’s relatively favorable macroeconomic conditions. Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.
这种相对良好的形势反映了哥伦比亚较为有利的宏观经济环境。虽然该国从未向其政府所声称的那样免受全球经济衰退之苦，但它确实得益于一些能够减轻国际经济危机所造成的破坏的因素。特别是考虑到在对外融资如此艰难的情况下，对外汇的持有。