Colombia and Paula Martinez

Paula Martinez: For Colombian plantain farmer Paula Martinez, the ripple effects of that decision have felt more like a punishment, according to Wall Street Journal and When Colombia undertook an extensive tax overhaul, Wall Street rewarded it by making the country a bigger piece of one of the most widely used emerging-market bond indexes, handing fund managers a mandate to buy more of the nation debt. The index reshuffling prompted investors to redirect billions of dollars to... (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.