Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discusses how to boost Latin America’s growth. The region needs to increase productivity, spur innovation, and adapt its productivestructure to changing circumstances which must become anational priority for all countries, independent of theirpolitical cycles and ideologies. Improvinglogistics and infrastructure, education, and the contractualenvironment are critical to advance development in theregion. World Bank Group is working with the Haitian Governmentand the private sector to introduce best practices inpublic-private partnerships and to create opportunities forthe Haitian people who have been waiting so long for them.He concludes by saying that providing disadvantaged childrenaccess to a quality education raises their productivecapacity and enhances social inclusion through higheremployability leading to higher growth and improved quality of life.
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