The global governance of development, understood as the policy paradigm in force in the current globalization model, has had repercussions on the equity and distribution of nations, basically because it has been established since the post-World War II period, based on a Western hegemonic vision that has sought to orient world policy around universal objectives in order to achieve the levels of development considered adequate from that vision. This model has been instrumentalized by international cooperation through Multilateral Development Organizations (MDO) such as the World Bank (WB) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), through financing for development projects, subject to political reform conditions and the exercise of soft power as a tool to legitimize the pro-development discourse, respectively. In the present study, we seek to study whether the formulation of the public employment policy discourse in Colombia has been influenced by the discourses issued from the MDGs, based on the theoretical and methodological framework of Pierre Müller's cognitive analysis of public policy. Through the use of Müller's public policy referential, an analysis is made of the Global Referential (GR), defined by the annual speeches of the World Bank and the UNDP; the Sectoral Referential (SR) and the Transaction Operators (TO) present in Colombia around the formulation of employment policy, in order to determine whether there has been an interference from the GR in the formulation of local policy.
