It is no secret that the political crisis has dragged, under its mantle of instability, the Peruvian economy in the last decade – perhaps longer – in the face of the image it projects towards foreign investment markets. At this point, the release of former President Alberto Fujimori could take a special turn at a […]
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UNESCO: Latin America has a “huge” crisis in digital talent and learning
Latin America has a “enormous” crisis of digital talent and learning, since 8 out of 10 sixth grade students do not have the minimum level of reading skills, warned this Tuesday Valtencir Mendes, head of Education of the Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNESCO at the closing of […]
Mexico falls in mathematics, reading and science in the latest PISA educational report
The students Mexicans dropped their level in mathreading and science, according to the latest report International Program for Student Monitoring (PISA) published this Tuesday. Mexico turned out to have a much lower performance than the average of the 81 countries where the test was taken in mathematics, reading and science, especially in mathematics the level […]
Greater contribution to pensions must be assumed by the employer
Peru is one of the countries with the lowest salary contribution rate in the region and far from the 18.4% OECD average. According to a study on pension systems in Latin America by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung foundation (FES), Brazil registers a rate of 30%, Uruguay 25% and Argentina 20%. While in these three countries, […]
OECD countries maintain GDP growth of 0.5% in the third quarter
The gross domestic product in all the countries of the OECD rose 0.5% in the third quarter of the year, maintaining the same growth as in the second, thanks mainly to USAthe organization announced this Tuesday. In addition, second quarter growth was revised from the previously announced 0.4% to 0.5%, the Organization for Economic Co-operation […]
OECD: The US is the country that spends the most on health, but with mediocre results
USA is, by far, the country of OECD that spends the most on health but with very mediocre results in the indicators on the health status of the population and a Life expectancy which, after being stagnant for a decade, suffered a serious downturn due to covid. In its comparative report on health systems published […]
Brazil will host the largest investment forum, with a focus on sustainability
Sustainability and new industrialization opportunities will be the protagonists of the largest investment forum in Latin Americahe Brazil Investment Forum (BIF)whose sixth edition will take place on November 7 and 8 in Brasilia. “Brazil It is changing and is once again competing with everyone and also opening up to those who want to make safe […]
Asylum requests in OECD reach record level by Latin Americans
Asylum requests in OECD countries skyrocketed by 91% last year compared to 2021, reaching a record number of 2,091,385 people, which is explained above all by a massive influx of Latin American refugees to the United States, but also to Costa Rica, Mexico or Spain. In its annual report on international migration published this Monday, […]
EU Tax Observatory proposes a 2% global tax on the world’s billionaires
A new report on tax evasion Fiscal Observatory of the European Union (EU) has proposed to the nations of the world the application of a minimum global tax of 2% annually to large fortunes, which could raise up to US$250,000 million from a stratum that, to date, has managed to perpetuate mechanisms to avoid taxes […]
OECD: Labor informality in Peru is double that in Brazil and triple that in Chile
In the words of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the challenge of informality is of great importance in Peru, since around 80.9% of workers are in informal jobs, without social and labor protection, and outside the tax and formal benefits system. In the region, Peru thus leads the percentage of labor informality, […]