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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
This ‘focus’ report originates from the IE University based in Madrid and Segovia. It is a business school, so the report is hardly unbiased, is it? You can make what you like from data from anywhere in the world, but I just read on the IE University website that Spain will need something like over 864,000 new IT posts by 2015, and guess what? The IE University teaches IT. It doesn't report on where they are needed, it only quotes Brussels as saying they are needed, and we all know how much a Brussels report is worth. Just where do you find these obscure reports? And why?
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Interesting. I rarely read Stevies links to blogs and obscure websites anymore.
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10633355)
Interesting. I rarely read Stevies links to blogs and obscure websites anymore.
You can almost guarantee, as with this one, that they come from a source with a vested interest or an ax to grind. Still a very long and rocky road ahead yet, methinks, so I won't be going out dancing in the streets just yet, Stevie lad. As for the property situation, I imagine those who are understandably very worried about their funds in Spanish Banks, may well transfer them into property if they're unable for whatever reason to take them back to the UK. However I have to wonder what the next stupid move the Govt.will make to shoot itself in the foot, if this occurs on any noticeable scale. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
I think this article from El Pais gives a more realistic picture of Spain today.
Three million in extreme poverty I know poverty is relative, but the fact is that Spain now has the biggest wealth gap in Europe - i.e. the gap between the richest 20% and the poorest 20%. If the cost of economic recovery is falling wages and a big decline in living standards for the majority, it all starts to sound a bit hollow. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by Pocaloca
(Post 10633547)
I think this article from El Pais gives a more realistic picture of Spain today.
Three million in extreme poverty I know poverty is relative, but the fact is that Spain now has the biggest wealth gap in Europe - i.e. the gap between the richest 20% and the poorest 20%. If the cost of economic recovery is falling wages and a big decline in living standards for the majority, it all starts to sound a bit hollow. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by la mancha
(Post 10633340)
This ‘focus’ report originates from the IE University based in Madrid and Segovia. It is a business school, so the report is hardly unbiased, is it? You can make what you like from data from anywhere in the world, but I just read on the IE University website that Spain will need something like over 864,000 new IT posts by 2015, and guess what? The IE University teaches IT. It doesn't report on where they are needed, it only quotes Brussels as saying they are needed, and we all know how much a Brussels report is worth. Just where do you find these obscure reports? And why?
http://www.thelocal.es/page/view/spa...y#.UVhp-1fvjxd Exports soared by 43.8 percent to Asia, 16.6 percent to Africa and 15.1 percent to Latin America, the government said, noting in particular a rise in exports to emerging markets such as India, up 35.4 percent, China, up 15.2 percent, and Brazil, up 28.5 percent. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
In your last link to the IE University focus report they quoted a Brussels source that said that Spain needs 864,000 new IT posts by 2015. Do you believe this, yes or no?
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by la mancha
(Post 10633664)
In your last link to the IE University focus report they quoted a Brussels source that said that Spain needs 864,000 new IT posts by 2015. Do you believe this, yes or no?
http://focus.ie.edu/why-spain-becomi...ort-powerhouse Fifth, as a consequence of the above points Spain has reached record levels of exports of goods and services (€350,000 million per annum). In 2011 a trade surplus was achieved, with the exception of energy, for the first time in fifteen years. In 2012 Spain exported more goods and services than it imported for the first time since the Euro was introduced, which explains why it is now on the way to having a current account surplus, and is therefore saving in aggregate terms vis-à -vis the rest of the world. Export levels of Spanish goods and services now account for 35% the country’s GDP, placing it second only to Germany in this respect among the main EU economies. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
So what they are saying is falling wages is now making Spain more competitive and their export market is doing well.
The export boom has added nine points to Spain’s GDP in record time because Spain’s exporters have not only managed to maintain levels of productivity in the good years, but also raise them in very difficult times. Lower house prices must be beneficial for the Spanish people, lower prices mean lower wages are more able to buy them, everything else is going up. |
Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Click on your focus link and when the page shows click on ‘home’ at the top of the page. You will see it there. It was your link, after all. I would stay away from links if you have difficulty navigating them. And I repeat the question. Do you agree with what Brussels says when it states Spain needs 864,000 IT posts by 2015?
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Also that "university:huh:" is a recently opened FOR PROFIT joint:rofl:
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 10633355)
Interesting. I rarely read Stevies links to blogs and obscure websites anymore.
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Originally Posted by la mancha
(Post 10633770)
Click on your focus link and when the page shows click on ‘home’ at the top of the page. You will see it there. It was your link, after all. I would stay away from links if you have difficulty navigating them. And I repeat the question. Do you agree with what Brussels says when it states Spain needs 864,000 IT posts by 2015?
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Well, do you agree with the Brussels statement that Spain needs 864,000 new IT posts by 2015?
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Re: Why Spain is becoming an export powerhouse..
Actually, I am quoting from YOUR thread post. So what's your problem?
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