A new Banco Mundial study that projects lower expected growth in Latin America in 2026 and 2027 has sparked complaints in many quarters.
But there are other, more disturbing reports revealing the decline of AI and education in the region that should raise far more alarm than current economic trends.
Latin America will grow by 2.1% in 2026 and 2.4% in 2027 based on previous forecasts, according to Banco Mundial’s new plans announced on April 8.
Within the causes, the United States’ war against Iran, which will weaken external demand for Latin American products and slow down the inversion.
El informe, titled Economic panorama of Latin America and the Caribbeanthey predict minimal growth this year in the region’s two main economies: Brazil (1.6%) and Mexico (1.3%).
Argentina grew by 3.6%, Chile by 2.4%, Colombia by 2.2% and Peru by 2.7%.
Gustavo Petro participates in the Colombian elections.
again, the region will be the least growing in the developing world.
As expected, the studio became bad news and sparked political recriminations. But it’s not the end of the world. Little can happen to Mexico or Brazil if demand from the United States or China, their main markets, weakens this year.
A truly serious matter is before you. A study by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) shows that the entire region it only attracts 1.1% of the world’s changes in artificial intelligence.
Leyeron good. Although Latin America accounts for 7% of the world economy and 9% of the global population, it accounts for only 1.1% of the global AI inversion.
In the era of the digital economy, it was necessary to stop the calls of all the rulers of the region. It’s a terrible sign for the future.
Other schools show, just as alarmingly, that the decline in education in the region continues to deepen. Some countries, such as Mexico, have launched educational reforms to improve the quality of education, condemning young people to be educated in poverty.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE) PISA test, 75% of young people in Latin America do not reach the minimum international level in mathematics and 55% fail in reading comprehension.
Latin American students who are established in more than one country have an educational career equivalent to five years compared to the rest of the OECD countries.
In its new report, the World Bank also warns of a decline in artificial intelligence and education, although their ads were unintentional cases between the owners regarding the economic growth of the moron.
According to the study, Latin American universities still “graduated few students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics” and “ranked at a low global level, with few among the top.” Moreover, they have little interaction with the private sector.
The result, concludes the bank, “It’s a workforce with a small capacity and a very limited pool of possible entrepreneurs and technicians”.

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What are you doing in respect?
It is clear that greater efforts by the government are necessary to improve the quality of education, technical training and management development as recommended by international organizations.
But as you can observe in my travels in China, Japan, India and other countries I visited while writing my book Enough historyAmong the best education policies in the world, Latin America’s well-known culture of obsession with education is the most happening.
In China and other Asian countries, families spend a significant amount of their time and money on their children’s education, sending their children to private institutions at night to supplement what they learn at school, In Latin America, this family obsession simply does not exist.
Now is the time to support this with media campaigns and incentives such as millionaire business prizes for top students. In Latin America, there are young people who dream of being soccer players, but there are also those who aspire to become nuclear physicists or AI innovators.
Economic growth this year is a temporary phenomenon, partly caused by external factors. The development of artificial intelligence and quality education are in turn structural problems.
De ellos depends on the outcome or crisis of Latin America in the next few decades.

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