Increase in Internet connections boosts levels of competitiveness in Costa Rica - Q Costa Rica News

QCOSTARICA  (Revista Summa) The summation successful fixed and mobile Internet connections, successful a ample portion of 82 cantons, boosts the levels of competitiveness successful Costa Rica, arsenic revealed by the 2nd National Competitiveness Index (ICN) study, prepared by experts from the Council for the Promotion of Competitiveness (CPC).

According to the study, determination are 2 reasons for the connectivity indicator to basal retired successful the last results: the summation successful the fig of fixed broadband Internet subscriptions and the betterment successful the show of 3G mobile services, fixed the fig of providers that the Costa Rican marketplace has.

For example, the fig of fixed Internet connections grew by much than 66,000 connections, betwixt 2020 and 2021, which translated into a maturation of 6.7%. This maturation benefited 49 of the country’s 82 cantons.

The study was presented connected Monday, November 28, astatine an lawsuit attended by Costa Rica’s Vice President, Stephan Brunner, and the Secretary General of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.

The president of the Promotion Council, Mónica Segnini, explained that the “National Competitiveness Index responds to a latent request connected the portion of galore actors, who required robust, reliable, and astatine the aforesaid clip applicable data, successful bid to marque concern decisions, execution of projects and different types successful the territories of the country. As a CPC we are pleased to beryllium capable to connection this scale to each sectors, some successful the study that we hole and the information that we marque disposable to everyone done the scale website”.

This year, the ICN included 123 indicators, which were combined to concisely amusement the level of competitiveness of the antithetic territories that marque up the country. The indicator has measurements successful six pillars: institutions, infrastructure, adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), health, skills and competencies, and marketplace dynamism.

The transport infrastructure magnitude – connected the infrastructure pillar – is the 1 that shows the lowest comparative results. This implies that the cantonal roadworthy web is successful mediocre information and requires much concern for its due maintenance.

The ICN points retired that the grade to which a municipality verifies the prime of the works carried retired connected the cantonal roadworthy web nether its work increases competitiveness. For example, the concern magnitude is higher for highly competitory cantons (¢3.5 million) than for cantons with emerging, limited, oregon mediocre show (¢2.8 million, connected average).

Recognition of cantons extracurricular the GAM

In this 2nd Competitiveness Index, the show of 5 cantons that presented an betterment successful competitiveness, influenced by important values ​​such arsenic health, connectivity and education, stands out.

These are the cantons of Osa, Río Cuarto, Poás, Carrillo and Liberia, which accrued their levels of competitiveness betwixt 1% and 3.3%. These are the lone cantons with affirmative variations, since, for the remaining 77 cantons, the alteration owed to competitiveness was null oregon negative.

In the wide ranking, 12 cantons obtained a highly competent level of performance. The archetypal canton is Montes de Oca (San Pedro) with 68.2, which for the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth remains successful that position; followed by Heredia with 68.1; and Belén with 67.9.

The canton of Flores (Heredia) placed 65.6, Cartago 65.3; Santa Ana 64.9 and Escazú  64.6. In the lawsuit of Moravia, which was ranked 8th, the people was 64.6 and for San Pablo de Heredia 64.3; portion for San Isidro it was 63.4; the aforesaid for Curridabat, portion Santo Domingo was the past with a people of 63.3.

Another 22 cantons are classified wrong the emerging state, that is, they person a bully level of show successful immoderate pillars and dimensions, but a debased level successful galore others, which gives them a ample model of possibilities for maturation and improvement.

Finally, 18 cantons were classified successful the class of constricted performance, due to the fact that they grounds debased levels of competitiveness successful astir of their dimensions, and different 6 are located successful the lowest portion of the ranking, with mediocre show oregon precise debased scores obtained. successful each its dimensions and pillars.

Border cantons specified arsenic Talamanca, Los Chiles and La Cruz basal retired for their mediocre show successful competitiveness. But successful summation to these, the ICN showed that determination is simply a geographical portion with debased scores that links the bordering cantons; Turrubares, Garabito and Parrita.

Important tool

The National Competitiveness Index is developed and published annually, since 2021, and the instrumentality is truthful versatile that it not lone qualifies and compares the antithetic cantons with each other, but besides details the strengths and weaknesses of each canton, successful each country evaluated.

For the implementation of this survey prepared by the Council for the Promotion of Competitiveness, with the sponsorship and committedness of the Coca-Cola Company, the Banco Nacional Financial Conglomerate and the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica (ULatina), arsenic good arsenic the enactment from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei).

William Segura, Manager of Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability for Coca-Cola Central America, said “the National Competitiveness Index to beryllium published by the Council for the Promotion of Competitiveness is not constricted to accepted indicators, but alternatively incorporates a magnitude connected the committedness of the cantons with sustainability, a important contented to warrant that our territories not lone marque an effort to nutrient more, but besides to bash it successful ways that are affable to the environment, contempt the information that contiguous lone 12% of the discarded is recovered for its valuation. For this reason, from Coca Cola, we articulation the effort to make this invaluable index”.

María Brenes, Director of Institutional Relations and Sustainability of Banco Nacional, considers “the National Competitiveness Index valuable, due to the fact that it allows communities, and the state successful general, to absorption connected policies and actions to amended their prime of life, and consequently person with amended concern and concern opportunities for the procreation of ventures and employment. With these initiatives and with our concern exemplary “Together we are Close, Human, Sustainable”, from the Financial Conglomerate we support our decisive relation successful moving to enactment the improvement of the country, generating economical value, caring for the situation and leaving a affirmative people connected the full Costa Rican society.

The rector of the ULatina, Rosa Monge, highlighted being portion of the CPC, “because we find that it is an perfect abstraction for discussion, for analysis, for the survey of each those issues that straight interaction economical growth, the improvement and competitiveness of our country. The CPC bases its absorption connected cardinal pillars specified arsenic education, concern growth, authorities management, and besides societal development, and we cognize that the academy tin marque precise important contributions and we are making precise important contributions truthful that we person the inputs and accusation indispensable truthful that the CPC tin marque interaction proposals for that improvement and for that maturation of our country”.

Read the original, successful Spanish, astatine Revista Summa.