- The amount was approved in a session of the Biobío Regional Council and will be channeled through the Regional Productive Development Committee with the emergency instruments designed in a pandemic to inject liquidity into SMEs: Reactivation Support Programs (PAR) and Active Investment
Excellent news for the Biobío region was given today in a plenary session of the Biobío Regional Council, in which 3.500 million were approved for the economic reactivation program that will be led by the regional Productive Development Committee through the PAR instruments and Active investment. It is worth mentioning that this motion was previously unanimously approved after being presented to the Regional Government Development Commission on Tuesday.
The health contingency that has arisen as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and that has already lasted for more than a year, has brought strong repercussions for the regional economy. As a result of the measures that have had to be taken to reduce the speed of spread of the virus and its impact on the markets, various productive sectors have been slowed down, one more than others, and unemployment has tended to rise.
The foregoing has affected the cash flows, investment decisions and purchasing capacity of companies in the Biobío region, where it has been identified that those that have seen their productive and commercial capacity diminish are the micro, small and medium-sized companies that They require special support via ad-hoc economic incentives to reactivate their businesses. In this sense, what is sought with this Initiative is to support them by providing them with tools that help them mitigate the impact of the economic slowdown that we are currently facing.
The executive director of Corfo Biobío, Macarena Vera, said that “we are very happy with this great news that the Biobío Regional Council has delivered to us today so that we can continue working to promote the Biobío business ecosystem. These 3.500 million, which will allow the implementation of the PAR and Active Investment programs, are added to a series of support that the Regional Productive Development Committee has provided to our entrepreneurs, to continue this joint work and that we finally succeed in moving our economy forward " .
For the Seremi de Economía Mauricio Gutiérrez, SMEs are a fundamental focus of the management of the Ministry of Economy, noting that “this regional economic effort approved today by the Biobío Regional Council, is added to the three programs that we already have open in Corfo, which are PAR: Tourism, Women and Creative Industries, for a budget framework of 4.650 million pesos and that will be added to what is coming now in April, a very robust program that as a government we are implementing to help SMEs, a multisectoral on the Sercotec side, where we hope to leverage for the Biobío region between 7000 and 8000 million pesos "
On the other hand, Luis Santibáñez, regional councilor, president of the Gore Development Commission and vice president of the CDPR, indicated that, “the regional councilors are very happy with the possibility of contributing 3500 billion to the actions of the PAR Impulsa and Activa programs. , developed by Corfo through the Development Committee. It seems to us that it is the correct path for the economic reactivation of MSMEs in the Biobío region in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis ”.
Regarding the Corfo Biobío emergency lines through which these amounts will be channeled, there are the Activa Inversión program, which seeks to contribute to territorial development through the economic growth of small and medium-sized companies and the Support Program for reactivation (PAR), that seeks to support taxpayers who belong to the micro, small and medium-sized companies sector, in the reactivation of their economic activity or in the beginning of a different one, recovering and / or improving their productive potential and their management, through the granting of financing for work plans for the development of skills and abilities, investment and / or working capital, within the framework of the social, economic and health situation.
