Overview
- Finance Minister Denisse Miralles said the government is preparing a nationwide deregulation package to simplify licenses and procedures, paired with a National Infrastructure Plan for 2025–2030 that is nearing approval.
- Speakers reported record labor informality above 70% and a drop of more than 20% in youth employment since before the pandemic, aligning on investment, stability and skills as the path to recovery.
- CONFIEP’s Jorge Zapata urged political and legal stability, cited the Central Bank as an institutional model, and pressed for labor deregulation, noting payroll costs can rise about 45% above wages.
- ASEP’s Fernando Calmell del Solar called state bureaucracy the main barrier to formalization and pushed for immediate state simplification and judicial reforms to eliminate red tape.
- CGTP’s Luis Villanueva emphasized defending democracy and the rule of law to rebuild confidence and prioritized education and training aligned with labor market demand, especially for technical fields.