スペインでは、不況により失業者が増加し続けて、いつになったら失業者が減少して不況以前にもどるのだろうか?
COLUMNA
Sobrevivir hasta 2014
Nadie puede pronosticar cuándo volverá el paro a los índices anteriores a la crisis
Joaquín Estefanía 26 NOV 2012 - 09:54 CET
COLUMN
Survive until 2014
No one can predict when unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels
Joaquín Estefanía 26 NOV 2012 - 09:54 CET
In his last appearance in the Senate, President Mariano Rajoy Government said: "2013 will be better, we will not touch the ground yet, but it will be better, especially the second part, and in 2014 will begin to grow the economy." No stressed nothing about the behavior of employment, Spanish real differentiating factor for the main countries around us. No politician or social scientist has been able to present a forecast of how long it will cost to move from an unemployment rate as the current, for example, 8% of the workforce that is what it was before the current economic crisis. Recall that the unemployment rate was higher than in the U.S. from the Great Depression was 25%, the same as our country is suffering now.
In the description of the situation, of how we, Rajoy imitates God in moral tales: representation dominates, but only appears on stage. His angels announcers are Guindos, Banez, Montoro, Secretary of State for Economic, Jiménez Latorre ... It is the latter that have put on the table an improvement of the Spanish economy, which almost nobody sees, avoiding the concept of green shoots that massacred the previous owner with Zapatero Economy, Elena Salgado. Which has been Guindos said something as vague as "this is the story of the recovery of the Spanish economy in the coming quarters" and Jiménez Latorre station who has arrived to growth in the second half of next year.
Brussels foresees a recession three times deeper than the government expected
Official forecasts contained in the State Budget for 2013, do not match much with the European Commission or the consensus of research services. To give the most representative example, while the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, believes that the Spanish economy will shrink by 1.4% in 2013 and unemployment will rise to 26.5% of the working population, the picture Rajoy government's macroeconomic forecast to decline by 0.5% and unemployment (down) of 24.4%. What fiarán exploration capabilities of companies and families in making their numbers and their consumption and investment plans for the immediate future? All this in a new context of recession in the eurozone (the second in four years), with consumption, investment and employment percentages foreshadowing announced. The governor of the Bank of Spain, Luis Maria Linde-most prudent, as befits its role, without winning any of polemics, he said, also in the Senate: "We do not perceive improvements in activity and employment."
At this juncture, the Government, any Government, was to exert a dual function: to help those who are being left on the road, which are becoming more and are growing rapidly, and try to avoid worsening the situation. It is difficult to conclude that this is what is making the Executive Mariano Rajoy after one year rule: everything that could worsen worsened. Rather reminds philosophy that letter that a British minister wrote to the head of the British Cabinet, Labour's Ramsay MacDonald, at the beginning of the last century (described in the great quest. A history of economics, Sylvia Nasar, editorial Debate): the master and officers of the ship have brought to shore at low tide, no human effort will the ship afloat until the tide, following the course of nature, rises again. And MacDonald replied: his letter accurately reflects my mood.
In the current situation, to appeal to the improvement in 2014 is talking about the long term. One of the most famous phrases of Keynes ("long run we are all dead") contained in the following passage from his book A Brief Treatise on Monetary Reform (Economic Culture Fund), 1923: "The long run is an inadequate guide to study current events. A long run we are all dead. Economists arrogate a task too easy and vain if in tempestuous phase just say that when the dust settles the sea will be calm. " Politicians are the same thing happens.
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