One of the objectives of the seminar, which is sponsored by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Ministry of Agricultural Development, among others, is to examine the structural differences between countries and population groups and to propose strategies for overcoming them.
At the opening, the Director of the Sub-Regional Headquarters in Mexico at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), Hugo Veteta, stated in his conference on rural areas that these areas have always undergone profound changes, but nations are limited to the understand changes.
The official gave examples of how countries’ domestic product is currently shrinking, changes in household income sources, business structure, ICT, and 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 is understood with earlier and limited visions to understand the changes but not the complexity of interacting in the areas.
At the same time, he explained that there is another important narrative, one related to middle-income countries that is sensitive to Costa Rica.
Increasing per capita income must solve problems, the official said, but others could get worse, pollution, gender gaps 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 hamper development, he stressed.
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