In reality it is not a locution, since it is an economy ("administration of resources and goods, in this case more associated with business") orange ("by the orange color, in this case associated with creativity, culture"); So it is economic progress based on knowledge and artistic creation, usually applied. It first appeared in the book The Orange Economy: An Infinite Opportunity (Felipe Buitrago and Iván Duque, 2013) published by the IDB. See green (associated with ecology), black (associated with the illegal), white (associated with the free), red (associated with prostitution, the dangerous), . . .