El Plan de Desarrollo 2002-2006 ‘Hacia un Estado Comunitario’:

Abstract

The proposal of the Development Plan presented by the Government is a list of good intentions framed in the grandiose ideal of solving old and growing problems,but it does not contain a clear policy or pertinent instruments for its attainment. The main economic strategies sustaining the Plan deal, essentially, with the solution of three critical problems: the deficit or fiscal «hole», prompted by transferences and the contingent pension debt; the payment of the huge and ascertained public debt, internal and external; and the situation of internal violence which,according to many analysts, is –along with the poverty and misery of the population,one the tokens of the Colombian social instability. It seems, therefore, that there is no fiscal margin for the Gov ernment to attain one of its objectives: thegrowth and generation of employment.