Rice Business - Global Field Experience (GFE) Municipio de Medellín: Colombian Business

This report provides a status update on the human resources for health (HRH) sub-system in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay. The report structures its discussion around how the health workforce is financed, organized, managed, regulated, and performing.

The main contribution of this book is demonstrating that, with the proper techniques, job portals can be a robust source of labor market information. In doing so, it also contributes to current knowledge by developing a conceptual and methodological approach to identify skills, occupations, and skill mismatches using online job advertisements, which would otherwise be too complex to be collected and analyzed via other means.

Deep trade agreements are reciprocal agreements between countries that seek integration of goods, services, and factors' markets, or deep integration. Drawing on new data and evidence, Deep Trade Agreements: Anchoring Global Value Chains in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that these agreements can drive policy reforms that can help the region overcome some of its disadvantageous fundamentals. Four areas of deep integration--trade facilitation, regulatory cooperation, services, and state support--are priorities to improve the participation of countries in the region in GVC:1. Facilitating trade can reduce border delays and ease the challenges caused by the remoteness of some countries.2. Improving regulatory cooperation can help create larger regional markets by reducing the costs of nontariff measures.3. Opening the service economy can compensate for factor endowment scarcity and facilitate access to skills and technology.4. Fostering competition and regulating state support and state-owned enterprises can improve the quality of economic institutions.