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MANJARRES TETE, Arleth; SUAREZ, Aminta de la Hoz; LUNA, Ismael Felipe  e  CANTILLO, Julio César. Public investment expenditure and economic growth of the colombian caribbean coast. Case: Department of Atlantic, periods 2008-2021. Investigación y Negocios [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.28, pp.41-49. ISSN 2521-2737.  https://doi.org/10.38147/invneg.v16i28.201.

The objective of this research is to analyze the economic growth of the department of Atlántico based on the public investment experienced in that territory; considering public spending as an important factor for the creation or improvement of installed capacities that contribute to territorial development in terms of economic growth. It is a study with a quantitative approach, of a non-experimental, longitudinal, and documentary design, in which an analysis is carried out on the economic behavior of the territory, making use of the Eviews statistical software, performing a model based on the public spending of the Atlantic in the periods 2008 to 2021. The research is based on the review of statistical databases of the department of Atlántico contained in the DANE, TERRIDATA and CHIP platform of the General Accounting Office of the Nation, as well as reports generated by the departmental government and national reports. on the behavior of the Gross Domestic Product for the referenced years. The results show that the economic growth of the department presented significant variations in the period 2008-2021; with an upward trend from 2008 to 2016, where a cut is made caused by a drop in the price of hydrocarbons, reducing the supply of energy and agricultural goods caused by the El Niño phenomenon and the unemployment of the Freight transport; continuing with economic decline until 2019, with differences between departmental Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for each year ranging between 0.02% and 0.05%. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the department's economy was destabilized in the first months of the year; however, measures are applied to reactivate the economy, increasing departmental GDP. It is concluded that, during the last year of analysis, the department made an effort to reactivate the economy, but due to the same conditions of mandatory confinement, conclusive results were not achieved.

Palavras-chave : Economic growth; Public spending; Public Investment; Colombian Caribbean Coast; Department of Atlántico.

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