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Imagen alusiva al emprendimiento regional y al capitalismo popular planteado en las bases del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo. · EPM

Development Plan bets on popular capitalism and regions

The Government of Abelardo De La Espriella released the bases of the 2026-2030 National Development Plan, Colombia, la Patria Milagro, with goals of growth…

--- The context --- The National Planning Department released the draft bases of the 2026-2030 National Development Plan, called Colombia, la Patria Milagro. The document, of more than 400 pages, will be the platform for the bill the Government of Abelardo De La Espriella will take to Congress during the first months of 2027. --- The facts --- The roadmap articulates seven strategic axes and sets economic growth close to 6% a year and investment equivalent to 25% of GDP in 2030, with public debt of 64% of GDP and long-term inflation of 3%. It plans to reduce monetary poverty to 20% and to evaluate special economic zones with incentives for agroindustry, mining, manufacturing and tourism in vulnerable and border departments. The Miracle Regions axis emerged from 17 meetings in 13 regions, with 7,576 people in the Mesas Milagro, and produced an initial portfolio of 119 projects, mostly of private origin, worth more than $150 billones, about USD50.000 million ($164.096 billones). More than 90% is concentrated in transport, information and communications technologies, and mining and energy. Gross higher education coverage was 56.55% in 2025. --- The positions --- The Government proposes, according to the document, to recover mining and hydrocarbons with legal stability and contractual modernization, and to protect communities, infrastructure and productive corridors against organized crime as a condition to activate the economy. It also incorporates popular capitalism to move informal activities toward labor formalization and to articulate public provision within the General Social System. --- What remains unknown --- The text does not detail later stages of the process in Congress, fiscal costs or specific deadlines for each initiative, nor how each megaproject will be financed or which enabling regulatory, security and management decisions will be adopted first. --- Unanswered questions --- How will the 119 projects of the initial portfolio be financed and what part will the private sector assume? What concrete incentives will the special economic zones evaluated for border departments have? In what way will popular capitalism manage to formalize informal activities? --- EPM analysis --- The proposal combines ambitious goals with planning that starts from the territories and their productive vocations. The A New State axis proposes an austere, modern and compact administration, with the IA Primero program, single windows and simplification of procedures, and the document adds the Fondo Milagro for reconstruction after the August 10, 2026 earthquake. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the value of this roadmap lies in putting the regions and formalization at the center, with clear goals of growth close to 6% a year, investment of 25% of GDP in 2030 and monetary poverty at 20%. Its real test will be turning the portfolio of 119 projects and the participation of 7,576 people into works, formal employment and visible services in each territory, with stable rules and permanent public monitoring throughout the four-year term.
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