{"id":8532,"date":"2013-09-10T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2013-09-13T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:10:47","slug":"competitiveness-the-good-and-bad-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/competitiveness-the-good-and-bad-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitiveness: The Good and Bad in Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/school-in-panama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8533\" title=\"DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/school-in-panama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Panama shines in 10 indicators of <span class=\"hlink\">competitiveness<\/span> considered to be of first world quality, but in another 10 is among the most backward nations.\u00a0 Panama needs to focus more on it educational system.\u00a0 I grew up in Korea and that is a country that realized it and pulled itself out of the depths of disparity to become a world leader.\u00a0 Nothing magical about it.\u00a0 It will take the Nation to pay attention and strive to be a world leader in this front also, not just infrastructure and condominium development. Panama could do that, if it wanted to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">According to an article in Capital.com items, in  the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum, the  country fails in &#8220;Independence of the Judiciary, Female participation in  the work force, Costs of crime and violence for companies, Quality of  math and science <span class=\"hlink\">education<\/span>, Wages and productivity, HIV prevalence, Rate of enrollment in secondary education and Inflation, among other things. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hlink\">Panama<\/span> has made significant progress in areas such as quality of primary  education and quality of science and math education , and ranks 128th in  higher education quality, but it is still measuring this progress,  there is much to be done in these areas, so that around them the future  development of Panama can be based, as it was in all the countries that  are now considered first world.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the matter, <span class=\"hlink\">Irene Gim\u00e9nez<\/span>, partner of the firm <span class=\"hlink\">Goethals Consulting Corp<\/span>.,  recalled that a good portion of these assessments and weights are based  on surveys. &#8220;&#8230; quality must be measured by external evaluations, one,  but not the only, example is PISA tests, from which Panama withdrew.  There should also be measurements of how the market responds to local  hiring for operational positions, etc.. 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