スペイン政府の2013年ー2016年の嘘の景気回復予想
LA CUARTA PÁGINA
Del ‘sonajero’ a la farsa macroeconómica
El Gobierno ofrece unas previsiones confusas para los próximos tres años, sobre todo en empleo. Niega de hecho la estabilidad financiera cuando proyecta para el trienio un crecimiento continuo de la deuda pública
Jesús Mota 7 MAY 2013 - 18:28 CET
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The 'rattle' a farce macroeconomic
The government offers a confusing forecasts for the next three years, particularly in employment. Actually denies financial stability when plans for the triennium continued growth of public debt
Jesus Mota 7 MAY 2013 - 18:28 CET
Until the end of April, the government's economic team had handled with ease and impassivity busterkeatoniana economic discourse consisting entertain the public, investors and the lookouts in Brussels with trifles and logomachies on structural reforms. It is what is known as "rattle policy." Each measure trivial (all but labor reform) was presented as a big change that is to "lay the foundations for recovery" (that litany has not yet disappeared from the catechism), each list of good intentions, hastily read the end of a Council of Ministers, was a superhuman effort in the "right direction to create jobs", each protocol congratulations of EC officials appeared as an endorsement of the certain economic policy and every little better statistics highlighted the excellence of the decisions or simply laid. Embarrasses say, but reducing the current account deficit, an inevitable byproduct of the recession, it stands today as a sign of economic improvement apotheosis, and the medal of the decline in risk premium, exclusive merit of the strategy of the European Central Bank , was hastily hung up the Prime Minister.
But from the April 26 policy phase begins to rattle macroeconomic transmuted into farce. As this phase emerging traits may indicate plans confusing medium-term stability, fasts any rationality and are assumed indifference from the government the major contradictions in its economic project. No care nor the forms, sign Azorin identify a desperate mood. Alleged policy reforms, simple cuts mostly invertebrates, is exhausted by ineffective, costly in social terms because the people no longer believe in it. He has performed correctly it is a hoax.
The official forecast plays with favorable productivity advance job recovery
The sign of the new farce broke out in the Council of Ministers of that April 26, the date of the announcement of the review of a new macroeconomic framework designed to better describe the depressing reality of the economy and gain credibility with investors and Brussels on new terms of financial stability plan. He was not seriously argue that the Spanish economy will experience a moderate contraction (-0.5% of GDP) when the first quarter and casts suspicion that recessive spasm exceed 1.5%. The problem is that the new macroeconomic picture looks more comical nonsense a reasoned and credible financial forecasts or diagnosis. Let's see why.
The Government contends in its plan that the economy will contract 1.3% this year and grow 0.5% in 2014. It is not necessary to discuss the growth in 2013. Tenth up or down, is around what I calculated the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (-1.5%) and other public and private predictions. But it is noteworthy that an exercise with acute recession happens, no reason for a change in trend, one of moderate growth. It is as likely that output in V of the crisis as one in which the Spanish economy suffered several quarters of stagnation. But the main problem is the staggering box inconsistency between that rate and the corresponding growth in employment in the next year. This is the sequence that defends the government: in 2014, an increase of 0.5%, total employment will fall by 0.4%, the same way, by 2015, we propose a GDP growth of 0.9% and employment growth of 0.3% and for 2016 the respective predictions are 1.3% and 0.7%.
These calculations rub the nerve. Any reasonable econometric model with realistic assumptions apparent productivity, calculated employment falls well above the quoted 0.4% next year and, of course, in the following. Where is the catch? Well, in that the economic team productivity shoes with the same method that Almodóvar writes his scripts and his best-selling Dan Brown, ie a hammer. According to the executive, the apparent productivity this year will increase by 2.1%, 1.4% in 2014 and only 0.6% in 2015 and 2016. Against these premises profiteers, it is more likely that productivity will grow this year by 2.1%, which is then moderately reduced to around 1.4% next year, about 1.2% in 2015 and even 1% in 2016. With these more realistic productivity rates, the employment trajectory would have the rosy appearance offering from La Moncloa fall around a point next year, three or four tenths in 2015 and virtually the same in 2016. Put another way, against the assumption that the Spanish economy will create employment since 2015, is likely to continue losing until 2016. This finding invalidates the official forecast of the unemployment rate, would not begin to fall from 27% to 2016, and not 2014 as maintained by the official projection incoherent.
The actual deficit in 2012 is close to 8% if you count the resource to the Pension Fund
It gets worse when you look at the guts of the deficit and the debt. From a net borrowing of 0.22% of GDP this year would switch to a net lending of 3.9% of GDP in 2016. And they say that there are no miracles. The biggest financial success of the Spanish economy in the last 25 years was to reach a financing capacity of 1.7% of GDP after three devaluations and monetary realignment, the Rajoy government seeks to do, in fact overcome, in a year. And not only that, but in the following years will continue to grow overwhelmingly financing capacity. Are they trying to tell us that economic ministers Spanish companies will not invest in Spain for years, because that's basically what it means an increase in lending, which invest outside and therefore no growth? In that case, to be looking for financial stability? With the same ease, it proposes a framework of stability provided sustained growth of the debt, when debt is precisely what is any plan to reduce stability, as Groucho Marx had explained perfectly. In fact, the only stable unemployment plan is because, for the reasons stated, the rate will not drop from 27% to more than 2016.
The economic development is proposed is an attack on the credibility and, between the lines, the proof that the government has fallen into hysteria, which is nothing to deny the truth (incompetence to tackle the crisis) and an enclosed in the drill. His management of the budgetary adjustment has failed, and it shows the inability to correct the deficit. Well analyzing the accounts, it would be in 2012 of 6.98% of GDP, with emphasis triumphantly announced the president and the Minister of Finance, but about 8%, for the final calculation of the deficit were stolen at least the imputation 11,000 million, corresponding to 7,000 million that the government withdrew from the Reserve Fund of Pensions and withdrew another 4,000 million of the Mutual; 11,000 million should be in the public administrations must. If it is argued that the Reserve Fund "for it is" the answer is that it only be used if it is admitted that the deficit is structural, if circumstantial, as claimed, suffering from parrotry, most of the Government, the Fund is not to play. If you also include aid to financial institutions (3.65% of GDP), there is a deficit of approximately 2012 PP AA 11.63% of GDP.
The policy of a government solution knocked out by a crisis that does not understand, is to blame the European Central Bank. That solves the problem with flooding Draghi liquidity, interest rate zero and unlimited funding to businesses, this is the new message after implicit declaration of incompetence. But memory are lapdog submission to the demands of spending cuts promoted from Berlin, the seriousness with which the ministries defended the austerity or banality that of "do not spend more than you have," and the conviction that have been maimed and spending on health and education rights. To paraphrase John Doe, it could be said that the Government economic policy was "too little dogmas and moral", with the aggravating fatal that has been unable to run.
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