Colombia:
Colombia's strong fundamentals stand out. Its $130 billion economy, a world leader in
the production of coffee, petroleum, textiles, and flowers, is growing at 6.8% a year, two full
points faster than the Latin American average. On 28 May 2007 the American magazine BusinessWeek
published an article naming Colombia "the most extreme emerging market on Earth"
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_22/b4036002.htm
Historically an agrarian economy, Colombia urbanised rapidly
in the twentieth century, by the end of which just 22.7% of the workforce were employed in
agriculture, generating just 11.5% of GDP. 18.7% of the workforce are employed in industry and
58.5% in services, responsible for 36% and 52.5% of GDP respectively.