Friday, 20 January 2023 00:38

MINEC participated in the World Economic Forum 2023 "Accelerating the Digital Transition"

Written by Evelyn Alas

The minister of Economy, María Luisa Hayem, was at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum WEF2023, along with international investors and economists, contributing to the conversations on actions to achieve global economic development in the future, which is inclusive and sustainable.

In the panel "Accelerating the digital transition", I shared El Salvador's experience in the area of creating human talent to generate more and better jobs, through partnerships with Amazon Education, Microsoft and universities that today have benefited more than 20,000 salvadorans.

Through the session "Breaking trade barriers", she shared how the Central Government works in a coordinated manner in Trade Facilitation, achieving to date more than 100 measures that have contributed to streamline and increase trade with the world.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will resume in 2023 its usual place and date of celebration.

After the alterations imposed by the pandemic, the 53rd edition of this economic summit will be held from this monday, january 16, until january 20, in the small Alpine town of Davos, in Switzerland, although with an unusually low level of snow in the ski resort.

This time the WEF is convened under the motto 'Cooperation in a fragmented world' and expects to bring together a record number of more than 2,700 political, economic and social leaders from a total of 130 countries, with the global risks of inflation, the war in Ukraine, the supply crisis and climate change as some of the elements in the backdrop.

 

Translated by: A.M