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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) points out that there are a good number of jobs in the area of technology that have not been filled. For some experts this is due to the lack of knowledge within the curricula on the use of new technologies and software development.

The  Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe (CAF) developed the event "El Niño: between droughts and floods", held in Argentina, where experts estimated that, in the last 10 years, losses due to droughts and floods in the region are approximately US$70 billion.

Huawei is launching the Latin America and Caribbean edition of its global flagship event, the Huawei Developer Contest. The company announced that the winning team of the 2022 version could get up to USD$15,000 in this competition.

The economic growth recorded in 2021 was insufficient to recover the labor market in Latin America and the Caribbean, which two years after the onset of the crisis is experiencing high unemployment and the prospect of an increase in informality.

The global authority on work culture, Great Place to Work (GPTW), conducts a survey to the staff of different companies on the most important factors that generate excellent workplaces for all and analyzes the organizational work programs that affect more than two million employees in Latin America. The survey has the objective of knowing the organizations or companies that are the best to work for in Central America and the Caribbean.

In response to COVID-19, which has severely impacted the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Bank Group (WB) allocated a record US$29.1 billion to the region since the beginning of the crisis (April 1, 2020) and throughout fiscal year 2021, which ended june 30, 2021.