Guatemala City, Oct 18 (AGN).- The former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, is one of the special guests at the first Forbes Economy and Business Forum in Spanish, where he highlighted that nearshoring is Guatemala’s great opportunity.
In this special event, the country seeks to attract investments that represent employment opportunities for the Guatemalan population, which helps to continue on the path of development and economic growth.
#ForumForbesES22 | Former President of Mexico, @FelipeCalderon, expresses his love for Guatemala and highlights that the National Anthem is beautiful. He remembers that 30 years ago he visited the country to spend the honeymoon with his wife Margarita Zavala. 📸
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Calderón emphasized that nearshoring favors the country because many of the American companies are looking for where to invest. Latin America is a great opportunity.
Another factor highlighted by the former Mexican president is that many companies they seek to invest in the same time zone, with easy access to the American market, with logistical ease that the president (Alejandro Giammattei) already mentioned: go for them, see what they are, what they need, and bring them to them immediately. I see a great opportunity.
factors
Part of the actions that must be promoted to generate these investments are related to four factors, according to the former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, these being:
- Institutionality, which attracts investment and generates growth
- Rule of law
- Investment in physical capital, through public infrastructure, public-private projects and government projects, among others
- investment in human capital
#ForumForbesES22 | Former president @FelipeCalderon: “Mexico and Guatemala are among the countries that will suffer the most from climate change. We are in a hurricane zone.” In that sense, he speaks of a transition to a climate economy. 📸 Carlos Jacinto.#ForbesAntigua2022🇬🇹 pic.twitter.com/9i34PJUQWb
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Jaguar of the Americas
The President Alejandro Giammattei He emphasized the government actions that are based on the Guatemala does not stop plan. It has multisectoral alliances, whose objective is to build and convert Guatemala into the Jaguar of the Americas.
As a government we have promoted the signing of three inter-institutional agreements in the axes of legal certainty, human capital and infrastructure, explained the dignitary.
Guatemala does not Stop is made up of five main pillars and outlines a roadmap to achieve the goal of creating 2.5 million quality jobs in the next 10 years.
Through this strategy, the country recently surpassed the 2022 foreign direct investment attraction of 1.5 billion dollars, which leaves more employment opportunities as a result.
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