Development in Latin America and Caribbean improving
The 2023/2024 Human Development Index (HDI) has been published and its data show that development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) improved significantly but failed to reach pre-pandemic levels of progress.
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the data for the region show contrasts and heterogeneity characteristic of the region. UNDP said the region experienced the sharpest drop in the Human Development Index in 2020-2021 and while the region shows signs of recovery, there is still much more to be done.
Overall the new report suggests that the world is on a positive trajectory. However, analysts say the progress in human development remains unequal, slow, and incomplete. Rising inequality compounds the loss of trust in institutions and high polarization, which decreases our ability to take collective action.
Countries that ranked in the top 10 for human development include Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Hong Kong, China, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, Netherlands. The United Kingdom was ranked at 15 and the BVI was not evaluated as a standalone country for this report.
In the Caribbean, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados ranked among countries with “very high human development.”
Others like Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Cuba and Belize were ranked as countries with “high human development.”
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Development improving everywhere except here.
What we do have to address is the current unstoppable explosion in global population/immigration and the steamroller that is malignant capitalism.
The best way to protect Virgin Islanders is to STOP the corruption and cronyism that has been allowed to systematically undermine the labor, immigration and land sale laws that the forbearers set in place to protect the VI’s from disenfranchisement.
Those laws must be upheld and strengthened AND our education system prioritized so that future generations are not just employed, but remain enfranchised.
WE can’t put the genie back in the bottle-rights granted cannot (and should not) be removed- but we have the tools to recork it.
Do we really need work permits for the importation of gangs and prostitutes?
And WHY do we have to import plumbers, masons, carpenters and electricians???
If immigration is a threat, why not open a trade school and apprentice system with trade license renewal dependent on apprentice training quotas?
Local before international Politics need hygiene.