The use of specific software in your consultancy or agency can bring benefits on several levels.
First of all, the most obvious and evident one, which is the own and internal benefit of the business structure. If we use tools that can streamline daily procedures, we can work more efficiently and comfortably.
In this way, we can increase productivity, reduce costs and keep the staff happier by reducing their workload.
Arguing that the unusual growth in sugar imports is harming local production, the Alvarado administration decided to raise the tariff on products entering Costa Rica from 45% to 73% for a three-year period.
The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) concluded the investigation requested by the Agricultural Industrial League of Sugar Cane (LAICA) and 4 mills, on the safeguard measure against imports of solid state, granulated sugar, known as white sugar, used for domestic and industrial consumption, justifying a deterioration in the main economic indicators of the National Production Branch (RPN), details an official statement dated June 15.
A study carried out among companies in Guatemala concludes that eight out of ten companies consider continuing with the work-from-home modality once the crisis generated by covid-19 is over.
Higher levels of productivity, better balance between personal life and work, added to savings in travel time and expenses, are part of the benefits of implementing the modality of working from home or another place other than the traditional office.
In a context of falling international prices, increasing production and improving efficiency are the main objectives of Guatemalan sugar producers for the 2019-2020 harvest.
Official figures detail that during the 2018-2019 harvest the production of sugar in Guatemala reached 2.9 million metric tons, and for the current harvest that has just begun the harvest of a similar volume is projected.
The growing trend to work for companies that offer the flexibility to work from home or in spaces outside the office, is modifying the employee performance and even triggering changes in the real estate market.
Experts on the subject say that Panama reports a growing trend, which consists of employees choosing not to work in eminently corporate environments and do so in coworking’s, cafeterias and avant-garde offices, or even work from home.
The difficulties in identifying staff training needs and the lack of a clear relationship between new employee skills and incentives diminishes the possibility of achieving company goals.
According to the Deloitte 2019 Global Study of Human Capital Trends, in which more than 9,400 business leaders from around the world participated, including 261 from Costa Rica, the learning of business staff is the most relevant trend.
For the IDB, investment in infrastructure is the most important priority when increasing the probability of improving productivity and reaching higher per capita income levels in the countries of the region.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published its report "Building Opportunities for Growth in a Challenging World," in which it addresses the benefits of infrastructure investment and its influence on productivity growth in the countries of the region.
The price control policy of the basic basket that has been implemented in Panama for some years is discouraging the local production of goods, since it is not profitable for companies to produce at a price lower than the balance price.
The measure to regulate the maximum retail prices of 22 products of the basic basket, began in 2014 and its validity has been renewed each semester, with its last extension in January of this year.
Businessmen in Costa Rica recognize the importance of the fiscal reform needed by the country, but they are calling on the Alvarado administration to pay attention to equally complex problems, such as unemployment and high production costs.
The business sector has taken stock of the first 100 days of the government of Carlos Alvarado, and in a discussion outlined the urgent challenges facing the country, such as how to achieve economic reactivation, advancing a proposed teleworking law, promoting dual training and investing in improving road infrastructure.
A bill by the Morales administration in Guatemala proposes creating an agency that would manage issues of commercial promotion, competitiveness, investment attraction and country brand.
Representatives from the Ministry of Economy presented in Congress a proposal for a Law to create the Institute for Commercial Promotion, ProGuatemala, which would absorb the functions and staff that at the moment execute the National Program of Competitiveness.
In Nicaragua, entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector have reiterated the benefits that this technology brings in terms of competitiveness, and insist on clear rules for their use.
Fumigating at lower costs and improving surveillance of planted areas are some of the benefits that drones provide for agricultural activities. An example of this is the data provided by the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (Upanic), whose representatives say that with a drone, the cost of spraying a manzana (7,042.25 m2 = 1.74 acres) of crops is 20 cents, well below the $3 it costs using traditional methods.
The first thing that the new organization made up of producers and exporters will do is determine the factors that affect the productivity of Nicaraguan coffee.
The National Platform for Sustainability of Coffee (Nicafes), made up of 33 private sector organizations, among them producers, suppliers and exporters, has the objective of making up for the absence of a leading institution in the sector, which defines and coordinates policies for the development of coffee activities.
The renovation of plantations and a favorable climate explain the improvement in yield per hectare of bananas in Bocas del Toro, which in the last year rose from 1,700 boxes of 18 kilos to 2,600 boxes.
The figures were confirmed by representatives of Cooperativa Bananera del Atlántico (Coobana RL), which grows 550 hectares of bananas in Changuinola, Bocas del Toro. Of the total production, 60% is exported to Holland, 33% to Ireland and the rest is sold nationally.
Sustainable economic development requires the maximization of these three factors in a combined form.
EDITORIAL
- There is no use opening a country to the world if you do not have the minimum capacities to compete in international markets.
- To base development on offering a list of a few products or services to the worldgenerates a dangerous dependence of their value in the market or on fluctuations in their production.
The productivity goals set by the Solis administration for production of maize, rice, potato and beans in Costa Rica, will stay only on paper.
The the current government's proposion on assuming power in 2014 was to raise agricultural productivity, mainly from the cultivation of grains such as rice, maize and beans, but everything seems to indicate that it will be an almost impossible task.And although the government blames the climate, which may have had an effect, the reality of recent years shows that lack of agricultural productivity in Costa Rica is more linked to structural factors, such as production costs, than to other factors, such as the weather.
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