The latest PISA assessment confirms that Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, the only countries in the region to appear in its ranking, are far from the average results obtained by the OECD group of nations.
Although in the last ten years the average expenditure per primary and secondary student increased by about 15% in OECD countries, most of their states do not report significant progress in education.
Reducing trade barriers and procedures, increasing legal security and improving productive infrastructure are part of the changes required by the business sector for the region's economic development.
In Guatemala, the 12th Ibero-American Business Meeting is held, in which the private sector presents proposals to face the current challenges and generate opportunities for the countries of the region.
The private sector proposal includes building a new port in the Caribbean and improving existing ones, reviewing electricity tariffs, and creating a special tourist area in San Juan del Sur and Tola.
The private union has submitted a proposal for development in 2020 that focuses on five areas: financing; infrastructure and services; public management and facilitation; education system and human capital; and innovation in business management.
A proposal has been made to create "intermediate cities" in nine areas of the country, in order to bring remote rural areas closer to urban areas where productive development has historically been focused.
From a statement issued by Fundesa:
The proposal to be presented this year in ENADE 2016 has 3 components and is called Strategy 911: Promoting 9 territories identified as Intermediate Cities, promoting the development of 11 production clusters with an impact on job creation and addressing the 11 bottlenecks preventing growth of these sectors.All of this comes under the initiative "Let's Improve Guate" which seeks to reduce poverty through the generation of productive employment for the more than 150,000 young people who join the workforce every year.
As soon as the third set of locks starts operating, the Canal Authority plans to develop logistics and industrial projects in the thousand hectares located west of the waterway, near the former Rodman base.
Building a roll-on roll-of port, an industrial area and an area to store refrigerated cargo are part of the recommendations that Antea Group made to the Panama Canal Authority, after it requested a study to determine the feasibility of developing the area. The main objective of the Panama Canal Authority is to take advantage of the expansion of the road and increase its value, providing complementary services to local and multinational companies.
Leasing plots of land in the country that are not being used could be an alternative for owners who do not have the resources nor the technology to exploit them.
Nicaragua has almost the same amount of unused land as plots farmed with corn, beans, rice and sorghum.
In Costa Rica a 650 MW hydropower project in which $129 million has already been invested, has made no progress in 20 years, pending an "intercultural dialogue" which has not even begun.
EDITORIAL
The problem is not that infrastructure is to be built in indigenous territories without dialogue . Nor it is that the dialogue is fruitless. A conflict has not even arisen.
Report of Costa Rica´s performance, through the selection, measurement and evaluation of a set of variables that include social, economic, environmental and political aspects of development.
Overview of the State of the Nation Report 2015:
In the past five years, the State of the Nation has warned about the severity of the problems that threaten the sustainability of human development, the political system's inability to find answers and the need to correct the country's course. Therefore, in 2011 it was stated that behind the political and economic stability a wearing down of Costa Rica's historical progress could be detected. In 2012 the absence of solid progress was noted and in 2013, the existence of myths about the "country we are," which led to do the same actions being repeated with different results expected. Last year, the Twentieth Report stated that it was the end of an era and the political system was being called on to lead the transition with minimal confrontation and costs for the weaker groups.
A study has been made comparing the policies and incentives used to attract foreign investment and its impact on the economic development in each country.
From the executive summary of the study "Productive development policies to export and attract investment: a comparison of El Salvador and Costa Rica" produced by the Salvadoran Development Foundation (FUSADES):
The construction of the new container terminal in Moin has rekindled business hotels, corporate machinery, transportation and others, in an area deprived of development factors.
Renting working machinery, hiring companies for events and renting hotel rooms are just some of the new business deals being generated in Limon, since construction of mega-port project at Moin started. Added to this are the 380 people hired by APM Terminals, which is also "... contracting, indirectly, truck drivers, maritime and land transport services, food services and fumigation."
Low productivity in Central American economies is the barrier which needs to be overcome if we want to grow in a sustainable way.
A study prepared by the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides) analyzes the evolution of productivity in different production factors in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The Central Cruise Summit 2015 will be held in El Salvador, from 13 to 15 May, where it is expected that 15 corporations from the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association will be involved.
The Salvadoran Chamber of Tourism (CASATUR) hopes to have the participation of 30 union members who will be publicizing various tour packages offered by shipping lines.
Once again conservationism is at the service of sectoral interests, paralyzing investment in infrastructure which is essential for halting the deteriorating competitiveness of the economy.
EDITORIAL
In Costa Rica an investment of billions of dollars to build a container port has been held up by six years of legal proceedings, and added to this will be a further 5 months due to maneuvers made by uncompromising conservationists in league with unionists.
Representatives from the Competitiveness Initiative have submitted diagnoses and proposed solutions in education and business, infrastructure, procedures and access to markets and investments.
The World Bank cites weak economic growth, low tax collection and low public investment as the factors affecting productivity and preventing greater economic development from being achieved.
Less taxes and consequently poor tax collection, coupled with limited public spending, are preventing Guatemala from achieving a better level of socioeconomic development, despite having achieved timid growth rates of GDP in recent years.
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