The meeting of businessmen and entrepreneurs of the highest level in the Llao Llao it transcends through its face-to-face with politics. But on the tables there are other issues that do not go unnoticed. One case is that of the Argentina Debate, born in that Forum, which obtained the sanction of a law for the first two mandatory presidential debates to be held in the country in 2019, which will be repeated in 2023.
Another issue that circulated was the latest report from the Argentine Foundation for Education, promoted by the creator of Despegar, Roberto Souviron together with Karina Román and currently chaired by the former Edenor and Grupo Pampa, Ricardo Torres, supported by Karina Ztocovaz of Natura, Alejandro Tamer of Despegar and Constanza Gorleri of Galicia. The CEO of the Foundation, Víctor Ibarzábal, has published a detailed study of the Argentinean Observatory for Education under the direction of the economist and former Unesco, Víctor Volman.
There it is revealed that one in three third graders do not understand what they read. The percentage rises to 60% in the case of the popular classes and reaches 25% in the richest sectors. There was a commitment from attendees to put educational drama on the urgent agenda. In 1997, Argentina was the second best country in Latin America, after Cuba. Last year it fell to 10th place after Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Chile, to name a few.
It was also noted that $3.4 trillion in debt has been built up with education in 15 years. Between 2006 and 2020, the statutory education spending target as a percentage of GDP was met on only three occasions. The debt accumulated in these years is equal to 5% of GDP in 2020, i.e. approximately the investment in education in a year. 68.4% of this disinvestment occurred in four years: 2010 and the three-year period 2018-2020. As for teachers, they commented that in Argentina 30.5% work in two or more schools. In Latin America (11.4%), and is surpassed only by Brazil (38.6%). Furthermore, 14.4% of Argentine teachers declare that they carry out another paid activity, while the regional average is 8.4%.
Last Thursday and in the midst of the currency storm, Daniel Scioli together with Augusto Costa, Kicillof’s Minister of Production, presented himself before a large group of entrepreneurs from the SMEs of the CGERA led by Marcelo Fernández, who is in good harmony with the government. More than as ambassador to Brazil, Scioli has shown himself to be a “very possible” candidate for the Frente de Todos. Businessmen, worried about the survival of their companies, have heard of trading companies in Brazil, of which there are about 11, to facilitate the entry of their products with average discounts of 25% on import costs and savings of up to $5,000. By container. Scioli anticipated that Axel Kicillof, also in the countryside, will travel to the neighboring country to be received by the powerful Federation of Industrialists of São Paulo.
The past week was indicative of a Kicillof who will come out to inaugurate the works or launch contracts such as the one for the Magdalena Canal, which includes reconnaissance work and dredging work, on a new waterway of the Río de La Plata that will allow ships to go out into the Atlantic without having to go through Montevideo. The work involves budgets in the millions of dollars as the cost of opening the dredging and beaconing is $271 million. Its defenders say that sailing times improve between 4 and 10% for traffic from the north and 80% for traffic from the south. And they’re talking about savings of $85 to $89 million a year in fuel and paperwork. “The economic benefit of a potential transfer of services for ships using the Maddalena Canal is estimated at 154 million dollars in the most optimistic scenario and 60 million dollars in the most moderate one”, they justify in the Province.
Derwill was born as a family business with Argentine capital in the mid-1980s, when its founder, Marcelo López Imizcoz, learned the trade of “sock making” from Eduardo Bakchellian, the founder of Gatik, which then went bankrupt. In 1991, López Imizcoz started the factory from a hangar on the Pan-American with three cars from Czechoslovakia. The closure of imports led him to seek international brand licenses. And last week they opened a new factory in Catamarca exclusively for Adidas. It means 70 new jobs, 40 new machines and an estimated annual production of 2.3 million pairs of socks. All its production will be destined for the export of Adidas products to the main Latin American countries.
Since the grand opening of Zeppelin, Ezeiza’s impressive new departure hall, will remain the phrase of Alberto Fernández who advises not to travel for lack of dollars. The company that built it was the GCDI, with national capital, whose managing director is Alejandro Belio. Covering an area of 45,000m2, it had a budget of $230 million for a building to join the check-in spaces. GCDI was the main contractor for the works and was responsible for carrying out masonry and finishing work, furniture, blacksmithing, sanitary installation, structural work amongst others. During its execution, which began in mid-2018 and resumed in mid-last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2,500 people were employed. In addition to this project, GCDI was awarded the construction of the Toyota Spare Parts Building, the Mirgor Plant in Baradero, and is responsible for the renovation of the River Stadium and the Sheraton Retiro.
Source: Clarin
