Impacto económico y social de la pandemia del covid-19 sobre las pymes de Cartagena de Indias

Abstract

The Covid-19 was wreaking havoc in the large economies during the first half of 2020 and it does the same in Colombia from the moment of mandatory confinement that same year, until the third quarter of 2021 when the national economy finally opened, giving a truce to entrepreneurs of all levels. The purpose of this article is to identify the economic and social impact generated by the Covid-19 pandemic on SMEs in the district of Cartagena de Indias. This was possible through a descriptive quantitative research, under a non-experimental cross-sectional approach, in which third-semester students of the Public Accounting program of the Rafael Núñez University Corporation (CURN) verified the levels of affectation in the city and the terrible consequences of a sudden pandemic, for which the current world was not prepared, evidencing the negative impact clearly generated in countries with highly developed economies and, of course, much more marked in countries with developing economies.