Opening a seminar on inequalities in the Central American, Mexican and Hispanic Caribbean subregion, the official in his conference on rurality explained that the countries’ gross domestic product is currently declining and there are changes in the sources of income in houses, in business structures, information and communication technologies, changes in management and management of natural resources.
We are also seeing changes in exposure to human mobility flows, emigrants, refugees, displaced persons and their counterparts, which are remittance flows, but these events have not been reflected in the way we measure and understand rural areas .
This will be analyzed with previous and limited visions to understand the changes but not the complexities of interaction in the territories, stressed the official of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal).
Public policy seems stuck and does not seize new opportunities and does not address the challenges of globalization in our rural areas, he explained, after analyzing that we always assume that industrialization, migration and urbanization will affect the rural areas and these initiative helps to assess and understand this new rurality.
Another time, he explained that there is another important narrative related to middle-income countries, a sensitive aspect for Costa Rica.
The arguments on this issue suggest that increasing per capita income should solve problems, but others may get worse, such as pollution and gender gaps, which are not going away.
The numbers show that 72 percent of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries, and the explanation for this is that these are nations left to fend for themselves. On the contrary, they have persistent gaps over long periods of time, which hampers development, the official said.
The event, which will last two days, is also being organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Ministry of Agricultural Development, among others.
Another aim is to examine the structural differences between countries and population groups and to propose strategies to eliminate them.
Participants will address other issues such as poverty and income inequality, well-being and gaps in social protection. innovation and sustainability; and investment and productivity.
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