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Central America Today gives competitiveness conference in Panama

In collaboration with Universidad Latina de Panamá, Central America Today organized on August 28th the “Competitiveness Conference: Towards a Global Central America”, featuring Former President of Panama, Mr. Nicolás Arditto Barletta, who is the current National Competitiveness Committee´s Director, and by INCAE Business School´s Chancellor, Mr. Arturo Condo.

The Chancellor of INCAE Business School, Central America Today’s General Director and the Chancellor of Universidad Latina de Panamá at the competitiveness conference

The event was hosted by the Chancellor of Universidad Latina de Panamá, Mr. Modaldo Tuñón, who invited the Panamanian business society to read this “prominent magazine in the region”. Central America Today´s General Director and former Editor in Chief, Margarita Montes, presented the magazine´s content and activities to the more than 100 attendees from the private, academic and governmental sectors, announcing that Central America Today is now available in points of purchase in Panama City.  

Mr. Arditto Barletta made a presentation on Panama´s economic perspectives, emphasizing on competitiveness improvements achieved by that country, which has contributed to boost its GDP growth to an impressive 11.2 percent in 2007. Mr. Condo´s presentation was focused on the Central American progress and remaining challenges in competitiveness, highlighting the goals in education and technology.

Central America Today will organize this kind of conferences in all the region´s countries.

Highlights of the Panama´s conference can be seen (in Spanish) at: http://eventos.ulatina.ac.pa/videos.php?sede=001&evento=374

Central America Today and INCAE Business School
sign a collaboration agreement

Last April, in Alajuela, Costa Rica, Central America Today and INCAE Business School signed a collaboration agreement, which will enable our readers to obtain INCAE´s insight and analysis on the Central American business climate.

Marlene de Estrella, INCAE´s Director of External Relations and Rubén Darío Sorto Alvarado, General Director of International Communications.

INCAE Business School, ranked by America Economia magazine as the #1 business school in Latin America for four consecutive years since 2003, and by the Wall Street Journal as the 10th best business school worldwide in 2005 and 2006, will periodically provide Central America Today’s readers with articles covering the magazine’s main themes: Industry, Trade, Economy and Tourism, as well as with articles for the Management section.  

“We are honored with this relationship with INCAE”, says Rubén Dario Sorto, Central America Today’s General Director, “after 40 years of presence in Central America, INCAE knows the region’s business environment probably as no other institution does. This collaboration agreement shows the trust INCAE has placed on Central America Today, and we feel very proud about it”.

Additionally to its MBA programs, INCAE's Research Centers, such as the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) engage in the analysis of issues highly meaningful to the business community and the creation of proposals conducive to the sustainable development of Latin American countries.

INCAE makes research findings available to different governments, business sectors, and societies in an attempt to exert a positive influence on them and to provide them with positive change drivers, and now Central America Today’s readership will benefit from all this experience and knowledge.

Central America Today is a publication by International Communications, a company owned by Grupo Karims and Universidad de San Pedro Sula.

For more information please visit:
www.grupokarims.com
www.usps.edu 
www.incae.ac.cr