The four great structural challenges that Colombia has for 2023

The Private Competitiveness Council (CPC), headed by Ana Fernanda Maiguashca, presented the National Competitiveness Report 2022-2023, in which the entity analyzed and presented public policy recommendations in 16 dimensions and identified four major structural challenges that the country must work on.

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The Private Council questioned for this edition the reason for competitiveness and what is its role in the productive development not only of the country but also of companies and citizens

“This year’s report is focused on the history of Colombian companies, which face challenges every day and that it is up to all of us as a central task to find ways to solve”, Maiguashca said. The executive also referred to the importance of work on the structural gaps that affect the country and make us vulnerable to international shocks.

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The first great challenge that the CPC highlighted is related to the labor market, and the importance of ‘opening doors to formality’. According to the Private Council, “it is necessary to open the debate on access to social protection beyond formal employment and its anchoring to the minimum wage”, and also to break down the barriers to creating quality employment.

“There is a tension between maintaining certain conditions of formal employment and our ability as a society to admit more people into decent employment schemes, who manage to escape vulnerability.d”, highlighted the Council. The entity emphasized the need to have regulations that support inclusion and adjust to the challenges of the collaborative economy and the post-pandemic reality, and also in the implementation of a National Care Policy.

The second great challenge is education, linked to training for work. The Council proposes to develop a early warning strategy to care for young people at risk of dropping out of education basic, secondary and higher education and also promote access to the short-cycle post-secondary education offer through programs within the framework of the Training for Work Subsystem.

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Infrastructure appears as the third great structural need, both in physical and digital connectivity, and it is there that the implementation of the new Intermodal Transport Master Plan becomes important. “It is required that the cost of cargo transportation in Colombia reflect the gains in efficiency that the transportation industry has and that it be generated under competitive conditions,” is one of the conclusions of the report.

The fourth element is internationalization and productive transformation. The Private Council’s proposal points to the development of a road map “to refine the set of non-tariff measures existing in the economy”, as well as to strengthen programs with good evaluations of results such as Productivity Factories.

“The production of hydrocarbons allows us to leverage exports, it allows us to move towards more products. The potential is there, but we have many tasks,” Maiguashca said. The director of the CPC also spoke of the importance of reducing logistics costs.

“We want to make a special invitation to the government of change to use this tool to achieve short, medium and long term objectives”, indicated on the other hand the president of the board of directors of the CPC, Josefina Agudelo, who was also present at the presentation of the report and highlighted the importance of these inputs for areas such as industry, agriculture and logistics, among others.

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