The growth in life expectancy generates multiple market opportunities for groups of people over 50, who generally have higher budgets to spend, but are often excluded from brand messages.
According to reports from CentralAmericaData, so far in the 21st century life expectancy at birth has increased in all Central American countries.
Current policies against global warming are generating higher energy costs hurting the poorest in particular.
An article by Bjørn Lomborg, published in Nacion.com, notes that "Energy generation using solar and wind power received $6o billion in grants in 2012 alone. This means that the world spent $60 billion more on energy than was necessary. And as the climate benefit achieved amounted to a mere $1.4 billion, this means basically that $58.6 billion of the subsidies was wasted. In addition, a further $19 billion in subsidies was spent on biofuels which basically provide no climate benefit. All that money could have been used to improve health care, hire more teachers, make better roads or reduce taxes. "
The Ministry of Public Works in Panama is putting out to tender renovation works on Transistmica - Cemex - Calzada Larga, Section: El Chungal-Caimitillo Centro.
Panama Government Purchase 2014-0-09-0-08-003368-LV:
"RENOVATION OF TRANSISTMICA - CEMEX - CALZADA LARGA, IN THE PROVINCE OF PANAMA."
The works include laying pipes, unclassified excavation, paved ditches, laying a base layer, Portland concrete pavement, etc..
Guatemalan Entrepreneurs are asking for the consultations with communities about the environmental impact of mining and infrastructure projects to be regulated.
The Guatemalan Chamber of Industry (CIG) and the Union of Extractive Companies (GEE) has proposed the creation of a regulation governing community consultations, believing that these should be one more indicator in the approval process, and should not be binding in nature.
Report on the Performance of Costa Rica, through the selection, measurement and evaluation of a set of factors covering social, economic, environmental and political development.
From the Synopsis of the State of the Nation Report 2013:
State of the Nation Report 2013
Persistent myths about our country, have led to Costa Rican society, for decades, doing the same thing and hoping for different results.
Another 11,000 foreigners from 44 different countries have regularized their immigration status and obtained work and residency permits.
" ... Some 54 foreign nationalities have regularized their status, in the seventeen days that the process takes, without any hitches, although the number of regularized people has increased compared to the previous processes," said Javier Carrillo , director general of the National Immigration Service (SNM by its initials in Spanish) .
The changes include a prohibiting financial institutions from penalizing early repayment of loans.
According to an expert in consumer law, Jorge Eduardo Rooseess, this law is important because it "regulates all kinds of consumer relations with citizens, and because it appears that there is a willingness to provide the necessary force to an institution for it to defend consumer rights. "
Billions of dollars that alleviate poverty but put conditions on the productive development of Central American countries.
Taking the example of El Salvador, whose economy over the last 20 years has received $40 billion dollars sent by Salvadorans from abroad, an article by Roberto Flores in Alainet.org points to the extraordinary influence of the phenomenon in reducing the poverty-despite the stagnation of the Salvadoran economy-but also its involvement in the country's productive matrix.
The Central American population will grow by eleven million over the next 15 years, at different rates depending on the country.
Fourth State of the Region Report, Social News:
The Central American population will increase by about eleven million over the next fifteen years while in the last ten years it has increased by almost seven million people.
The Fourth State of the Region Report examines the society, demography, economy, environment, and political integration of the seven Central American countries.
The Fourth State of the Region report is divided into four sections and ten chapters.
The first section is entitled "Regional Overview", and its main purpose is to track recent developments in Central America based on a platform of comprehensive and current indicators.
The Eighteenth State of the Nation Report provides an assessment of the progress of Costa Rica on sustainable human development.
Synopsis of the Eighteenth State of the Nation:
Summary
Moderate growth and monetary stability, but environmental management, a society and a political system in serious trouble: that is, in brief, the story of 2011. A year in which the style of development and Costa Rican democracy has not made firm progress in human development of the population.
Projections have been released by the Ministry of Planning on cities, water, energy, population, employment, production, economic development priorities, education, land use, safety, infrastructure and logistics.
With the title "Guatemala 2032, A Vision for the new Katun", the Ministry of Planning and Programming of the Presidency (Segeplan) has presented a document that attempts to visualise Guatemala over 20 years, and the stages within this transition.
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