COLOMBIA FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL

COLOMBIA FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL

Today we must situate ourselves in a globalized world and accept that this world affects internally the countries and their different contexts, this scenario of globalization is expressed in the economic, with a regional multipolarity where we find the integration treaties, where the culture it is influenced by means of mass communication that change the dimension of time and space, but which in turn generate reactions to claim cultural particularities, in terms of politics with a democratic and military system of government with the unipolar hegemony of the United States.

Colombian economic policy has been between favoring the model of inward development and outward development. While the former bases the growth of domestic production, the latter places emphasis on the external market as the source of growth in the demand for its production. Thus, the first one gives special importance to the substitution of imports and the second considers the promotion of exports a key factor for economic success. Colombia has experimented with both approaches and evidently they have differentially affected the Atlantic Coast, a region whose main characteristic is to be an area that produces export goods and with enormous potential to export tropical agricultural products.

The protectionist, investor, regulatory, and welfare state economic development model was changed from the 1990s onwards by the liberalization, privatization and capitalist model that began in 1990 with a vigorous program of modernization of the economy, with a statute exchange to maintain and consolidate a level of change that would grant competitiveness to Colombian products abroad, as well as mobilization of resources, private investment and industrial restructuring, as well as the development of science and technology, linked to other policies in key sectors such as agriculture, urbanization, industrialization, telecommunications and information technology, health and education to achieve state modernization.

Colombia only at the beginning of the 20th century was able to insert itself in the world by exporting coffee from fairly conservative regions such as those of the coffee-growing areas; the country for fifty years had an economic model of industrial and agricultural protection that weakened the technological capacity of its industries, thanks to the high defensive tariff they could use second-hand capital goods without taking into account the quality of their products for the external internal market . The protection of agriculture meant higher prices for subsistence and more expensive wages for employers but no less purchasing power for workers.

In its release component, foreign trade is currently more open and less regulatory; the economic management is done without resorting to the complicated system of incentive and sectoral punishments of the past, it is tried to offer general conditions of exchange, financial and monetary stability for the most competitive activities stand out without the need of public aid. However, it is tried to sustain a policy active social foundation of location of vulnerable groups and the granting of subsidies to demand.

Decentralization was also of great importance for our cities, departments and localities, which meant greater autonomy for the municipalities and governorates that are currently elected by the vote to their governors. Additionally, in the case of the municipalities, the expenditure and social investment are executed by them, it is financed through a transfer fund assigned with distributed social criteria.

It should be noted that in Colombia there are five cities in relation to the others, with greater economic development, that is. Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla; and Bucaramanga; they have large areas, between two and seven million inhabitants, they also have a very diversified economic structure dominated by tertiary and secondary activities. The extension has surpassed the administrative political limits of the cities of origin and its surroundings turn heterogeneous rural regions with several components where industrial activities predominate, perishable goods of low price and the economic frontier determined by the presence of areas of agrarian colonization; of mineral extraction prices (gold and emeralds mainly) or legal crops (coca or poppy).

As for the localities, they extend their domain to almost the entire national territory, competing with their respective areas of influence; The first city, Bogotá, has been experiencing an increasing distancing from the other four cities for more than twenty years. In the commercial sector, export manufactures have performed better; In the financial sector, an important part of foreign investment has been dedicated to the industry and the business center is destined to this city because it provides access to the entire national market. The location of these cities is of particular importance because it allows them to access to the entire domestic market facilitates integration with the Andean trade partners of Colombia, namely Brazil and Ecuador.

It is very important to note that globalization from the global to the local has had an important development for all continents, including the Colombian, with exports of its products such as coffee, sugar cane, mining with emerald, as the main products of export, and likewise the import of other products for a supply of goods to the inhabitants of each country. The economy is an implement of dominion over another agent or country economically, then when the economy is applied from one country to another, so the policy also influences the dominated country. Agreements and trade agreements foment the export economy of Colombia, which generates more profits for large producers, taxes for the state and the hiring of a larger number of people. The agreements can generate adverse effects, especially when the conditions of the countries are very different, as in the case of signed with the United States In the current scenario where the globalization process and the advancement of the various integration systems are presented in the Colombian economy and the international market have been very favorable, important results have been achieved in terms of international relations is referred to worldwide; The United States and the European Union have focused their attention on the main Colombian problems that constitute a barrier to the development of the country, problems such as the subordination of the public, delegitimization of the state, loss of citizen coexistence, armed conflict, illegality, drug trafficking and Likewise, the constant violation of human rights, which in some way seriously compromises the positive incorporation of Colombia in the international market both in the current processes of globalization and in the integration of the Americas. Globalization has had an important development for all continents, including the Colombian, with exports of its products such as coffee, sugar cane, mining with emerald, as the main export products, and also the importation of others. products for a supply of goods to the inhabitants of each country. The economy is an implement of dominion over another agent or country in the economic, then to apply the economy from one country to another, so politics also influences the country dominated.