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Democracy That Delivers #238: Fedesarrollo’s Luis Mejia on Colombia and the Future of Work

12.15.2020 |

Fedesarrollo’s executive director Luis Fernando Mejia discusses his views on Colombia’s “Future of Work” perspectives. Fedesarrollo’s 50th anniversary gives us the chance to look back at where Colombia was in 1970, assess the country’s modern economy, and explore its post-Covid-19 futur...

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Labor Market in Guatemala

12.14.2020

Una versión de esta publicación en español está disponible aquí. Economic challenges and the impact of COVID-19 Prior to the onset of COVID-19, Guatemala already had economic and social challenges requiring significant coordination of efforts to solve them. The pandemic aggravated these challe...

El impacto del COVID-19 sobre el mercado laboral en Guatemala

12.14.2020

A version of this post in Spanish is available here. Desafíos económicos e impacto del COVID-19 Antes de la llegada del COVID-19 las condiciones económicas y sociales de Guatemala ya ameritaban una importante articulación de esfuerzos para ser atendidas. La llegada del virus agravó los desafío...

Desafíos para la equidad de género en el emprendimiento colombiano

11.25.2020

(An English version of this piece is available here) Como parte de la Semana Global del Emprendimiento, el Departamento de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) del CIPE organizó una conversación virtual con Lina Vélez y Decci Ibarra, ejecutivas de las Cámaras de Comercio de Medellín y Putumayo, pa...

Challenges to Gender Equity in Colombian Entrepreneurship

11.25.2020

(A spanish translation of this piece is available here) As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, CIPE’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) department organized a virtual conversation with Lina Vélez and Decci Ibarra, executives from the Medellin and Putumayo Chambers of Commerce, to discuss t...

Have you talked to them? Public-private dialogue and trade facilitation

11.13.2020

The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation team within CIPE is working to help Ecuador strengthen its competitive participation in the global economy. To foster local ownership of potential reform initiatives, GATF held several meetings with public and private sector stakeholders to grasp their insi...

Future of Work Initiative: Focus Areas for Kickstarting Latin American Economies

11.12.2020

The #futureofworklac is upon us and CIPE is developing ideas to stimulate Latin America in kickstarting its economies and transitioning to a more digitalized world. CIPE is bringing together our partners – CIEN, CIPPEC, Fedesarrollo, and Mexico Evalúa – to present their Future of Work material ...

A Center for Excellence is strengthening public-private dialog and shaping public policy in Colombia

11.12.2020

For some countries it is a given that private sector actors are an equal partner in shaping public policy. However, many countries around the world still struggle to include the business community in their policymaking process. By strengthening public-private dialogue, some countries have made progr...

El futuro del trabajo en América Latina post Covid-19: una nueva iniciativa de CIPE

10.30.2020

This blog appears in English at: https://www.cipe.org/blog/2020/10/29/the-future-of-work-in-post-covid-19-latin-america-a-new-cipe-initiative/ Cuando se anunció la primera víctima latinoamericana de Covid-19 el 25 de febrero de 2020, la región contemplaba un futuro del trabajo lejano donde el tel...

The Future of Work in Post-Covid-19 Latin America: A New CIPE Initiative

10.29.2020

This blog appears in Spanish at: https://www.cipe.org/blog/2020/10/30/el-futuro-del-trabajo-en-america-latina-post-covid-19-una-nueva-iniciativa-de-cipe/ When the first Latin American victim of Covid-19 was announced on February 25, 2020, the region was contemplating a distant future world of telewo...