La competitividad del sector minero – esmeraldero en Colombia post COVID – 19

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the competitiveness of the emerald sector in Colombia, which was drastically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to identify and propose improvement actions, for which the theoretical framework of competitiveness was applied in the systemic approach exposed by Klaus Esser, supported by a documentary-type methodology. The investigation determines the shortcomings that appear in the links of the productive chain of the emerald subsector at the meso level; and the general problems at the macro and target levels that affect the aforementioned subsector, therefore, actions are proposed to improve the competitiveness of the emerald sector in post-Coronavirus Colombia, both in the production chain and in management through the emerald trade associations in Colombia, with the national government, in such a way that public policies are generated tending to optimize the result of the objective proposed in this study.