Policies·colombia_oil_gas_exploration_moratorium_2022

Colombia Oil Gas Exploration Moratorium 2022

COL·2022 – presentcandidate

movestax progressivity↑tax corporate↑transfer expansion↑labour market flexibility↓

What the policy did

Petro-government policy decision announced in 2022-23 to halt issuance of new oil and gas exploration contracts and not renew suspended ones, while honouring existing concessions. Implemented administratively through the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) under the energy-transition agenda; aimed at decoupling Colombia's fiscal and export base from fossil-fuel extraction over the medium term.

Policy-content fingerprint — what this policy moved, on which axes

Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.

intended

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tax progressivity

fiscal.tax_progressivity

Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).

increased · weak

more progressive (higher top rates, wider spread, larger targeted credits)

Companion 2022 reforma tributaria raised the marginal tax burden on oil and gas extraction profits.

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tax corporate

fiscal.tax_corporate

Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.

increased · weak

higher corporate tax burden

Hydrocarbons-sector surcharge and non-deductibility of royalties raised effective corporate-tax burden.

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transfer expansion

fiscal.transfer_expansion

Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.

increased · weak

larger transfer footprint

Energy-transition agenda earmarked extractive royalties for expanded social-program transfers.

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labour market flexibility

regulatory.labour_market_flexibility

Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.

decreased · weak

less flexible (stronger employment protection)

Sectoral contraction reduces hiring flexibility and shifts employment toward more regulated sectors.

Enacted by

colombia_petro_2022_present

Empirical evidence — linked hypotheses

Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".

Countries with stricter employment protection legislation — measured by the OECD EPL indicator (or comparable alternatives where OECD EPL is missing) — experience longer average unemployment duration, holding other controls constant.

labour_market_flexibility_unemployment_durationinferred

viaregulatory.labour_market_flexibilityfiscal.transfer_expansion

INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — interaction term requested but no loadable constructed interaction variable is defined. The generic panel_fe runner would otherwise …

run pending

The labour-supply dis-employment elasticity of negative-income-tax (NIT) and earned-income-tax-credit (EITC) -style cash-transfer programmes is materially smaller than the canonical mid-1970s NIT- experiment headline estimates suggested.

friedman_negative_income_tax_labour_supply_smaller_than_predictedinferred

viafiscal.transfer_expansionregulatory.labour_market_flexibilityfiscal.tax_progressivity

PARTIAL — ATT=+20.8, p=nan, N=53, treated_countries=1 (above α=0.10)

partial

Large-scale universal or near-universal transfer programmes produce a three-order causal chain.

universal_transfer_programmes_labour_force_participation_declineinferred

viafiscal.transfer_expansionfiscal.tax_progressivity

partial — Prime-age LFP fell by ≥1.0pp in 2/5 cases (threshold for SUPPORTED: ≥3). First-order improved in 3/4 cases. Mixed: consistent with the spec's design-d…

partial

In a broad-country panel 1990-2019, greater labour-market flexibility — measured by lower OECD EPL overall strictness, higher ease-of-hiring scores, and absence of centralized wage bargaining — predicts higher employment-to- population ratios and faster real GDP per capita growth, controlling for institutional quality, education, and trade openness.

labour_market_flexibility_employment_growth_panelinferred

viaregulatory.labour_market_flexibility

PARTIAL — coef=-1.251, p=0.162 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive

partial

The American Rescue Plan Act (March 2021) expansion of the Child Tax Credit to USD 3000-3600 per child with full refundability and monthly disbursement (July-December 2021) produced a measurable and immediate decline in monthly child-poverty rate of at least 4 percentage points (Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia time-series), with the credit's December 2021 expiration producing a corresponding immediate reversal — providing high-frequency event-window evidence on near-instantaneous cash-transfer-to-poverty mechanics.

welfare_transfer_us_arpa_expanded_ctc_2021inferred

viafiscal.transfer_expansionfiscal.tax_progressivityregulatory.labour_market_flexibility

WEAKENED - SPM child poverty fell 4.5pp and rebounded 7.2pp; monthly CPSP and parental-LFP gates are not loaded

refuted

Large expansions of means-tested or categorical transfers without work- incentives or activation requirements predict lower prime-age labour-force participation rates over 15-20-year windows relative to expansions that incorporate negative-income-tax or earned-income-tax-credit designs, in an OECD and rich-country panel 1980-2020.

transfer_expansion_work_incentive_long_runinferred

viaregulatory.labour_market_flexibilityfiscal.tax_progressivityfiscal.transfer_expansion

INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — no outcome variable loaded; missing: ['oecd_lfs:lfpr_25_54', 'ilo:emp_15_64']

run pending

Brazil's substantial 2003-2010 poverty reduction (extreme poverty headcount fell from ~10% to ~4% and Gini coefficient from ~0.58 to ~0.53 per PNAD/IPEA series) is decomposed across three channels: (a) Bolsa Família cash-transfer expansion (Lei 10,836 of January 2004 consolidating prior CCTs, reaching ~13 million families by 2010), (b) real minimum-wage valorisation (real minimum wage rose over 50% 2003-2010, pulling up the bottom of the formal wage distribution and indexed social transfers including BPC), and (c) the 2003-2008 commodity boom (export revenue surge, formal-employment growth, wage-bargaining leverage from tight labour markets).

lula_bolsa_familia_poverty_reduction_decomposition_2003_2010inferred

viafiscal.transfer_expansionregulatory.labour_market_flexibilityfiscal.tax_progressivity

INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — treatment 'bolsa_familia_coverage_intensity' has no within-country variation under country fixed effects

run pending

The 2021 expansion of the US Child Tax Credit under the American Rescue Plan (full refundability + monthly payments + raised maximum) reduced the official + Supplemental Poverty Measure child poverty rate by at least 3 percentage points within the six-month payment window (July- December 2021), with a sharp reversion after expiration in 2022Q1.

tax_inequality_biden_ctc_2021_child_povertyinferred

viafiscal.transfer_expansionfiscal.tax_progressivity

SUPPORTED - SPM child poverty fell 4.5pp in 2020-2021 and rebounded 7.2pp in 2021-2022; both clear the registered thresholds and p<0.10 MOE check

supported

Similar historical policies

Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.

Chilean 1990 tax reform (Ley 18.985) — growth with equity

CHL·1990

match

1.7

tax corporatetax progressivitytransfer expansion

Colombia Health Reform Proposal 2023 2024

COL·2022

match

1.6

tax progressivitytax corporatetransfer expansionlabour market flexibility

Colombia Labour Reform 2023 2024

COL·2022