Investments and Business

"Colombia is an energy power, and it has to consolidate development alternatives that are clean," say the bases of the National Development Plan (PND) presented by the government of Gustavo Petro last Monday. This is the axis by which the chapter on "Development alternatives with clean energy" begins to be governed and points out that this requires a series of social and economic changes to be able to execute it. For this, the Government proposes a just energy transition, with points such as the creation of energy communities, the promotion of generation with non-conventional renewable sources, among others. Precisely the…

Under the premise of equity, the national government established the National Development Plan, which highlights equal access to opportunities for all Colombians. For this, infrastructure plays a key role on this route, closing 'territorial and socioeconomic gaps that fragment the social fabric'. In the document, in this matter, the main pillar is to strengthen intra-urban, urban-rural and sub-regional links, to generate this productive connectivity throughout the national territory.“In the main urban agglomerations of the country there are no regional mass transportation systems. In addition, there is no specialized institutional framework for planning and management at the regional level, which allows…

“We have bet that it is the popular economy, which is that of San Victorino, the one that reaches the streets, that of the peasant, that of the micro-entrepreneur lady, that of the cooperative member, that of the search... Some intelligentsia asked in networks what means the popular economy for 'the Government of change', since half of the Colombian population driven, almost forced, to search. It is there where we believe that we can build the economic potential of Colombia if we empower it”. With this message, President Gustavo Petro filed his National Development Plan (PND) before Congress on Monday…

Within Gustavo Petro's National Development Plan (PND), one of the Government's major proposals is the creation of a 'universal and adaptive social protection system', as a fundamental pillar of one of its five major strategies, that of ' Human security and social justice'. According to the PND document, the aim is for this system to "give a quick response to different shocks that put quality of life at risk", and for this, priority will be given to job creation, "complemented, if necessary, with transfers monetary benefits to the poorest households”, added to the strengthening of instruments that cover the risks…