Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez: "Spain has become an enormously attractive country for investment".
The Secretary of State and Director of the Office of Economic Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government has analysed the prospects of the Spanish and international economy for the year 2025 in a new session of PROA Comunicación's Current Affairs Dialogues, in front of a large group of businessmen and representatives of business associations, [...]
Manuel López Torrents -- "Corporate governance is rusty, it prevents the circularity of the economy".
Manuel López Torrents is an economics journalist with a long career. After more than 25 years in the profession, he has accumulated experience in media such as El Economista, El Boletín, Onda Cero, El Confidencial, Negocio, Vozpópuli, La Política on Line and now Estrategias de Inversión. He was the promoter of the Spain Investors Day event and has just published [...]
Recipes for overcoming the pandemic
In this article, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, offers his views on the four areas of action to be developed in the post-COVID-19 scenario: health, the economy, the welfare state and the European Union. Tamames explains what is necessary [...]
Challenges for the global economy in the decade 2020-2030
During these days of confinement, I have been reading the book Crisis Economics, written by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm in 2010. Roubini analyses in detail the most significant economic crises in our recent history since the 19th century and the economic policies implemented to contain them. Although each crisis is different, there are certain […]
Now more than ever, the SME needs a contingency plan
“We are experiencing this as if it were a film, a horror film.” This is how one of the many statements that have flooded the internet in recent days began, and it perfectly reflects the uncertainty that many business owners are experiencing. And perhaps this is precisely why, due to the fear generated by the current situation and how we will emerge from [...]
In the face of stock market falls caused by the coronavirus, it is advisable to persevere.
Despite the profound health crisis caused by the coronavirus, and its enormous impact on the financial markets and the economy, some experts advise remaining calm and persevering with investments in equities. This is the case of Banco Mediolanum, which has released a video prepared by its specialists, in which they demonstrate the [...]
Ramón Tamames estimates a fall in Spanish GDP of 13% (and III)
In the third and last article of the series, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, estimates the extent of the recession in Spain, and analyses the policies being implemented to combat it. [...]
The economic and social consequences of the pandemic: facing a calculable recession (II)
In this second article, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, together with Antonio Rueda, analyses the economic slowdown in Spain and the collapse of the stock market. The state of alarm The Spanish economy was already in a [...]
The economic and social consequences of the pandemic: facing a calculable recession (I)
Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, sets out his vision of the effects of the coronavirus on world economies in a series of three articles summarised below for the Proa Comunicación Blog. Black swan A la [...]
Social inequalities have an even greater impact on well-being than economic inequalities.
Boston Consulting Group's SEDA Sustainable Economic Development Assessment report highlights the importance of considering factors beyond GDP to get a more complete picture of government performance. Madrid, 28 August 2019. High levels of social inequalities, as reflected in differences in access to education, health care and [...]
Irene Garrido: "At least two more years of economic growth are needed to recover pre-crisis employment levels".
The Secretary of State for Economy and Business Support, Irene Garrido, participated yesterday morning in an informative breakfast organised by Executive Forum, with the sponsorship of the Excellence in Management Club and Ibercaja. During the meeting, held at the Palace Hotel in Madrid, Garrido analysed issues such as the recovery and [...]
Thorsten Polleit expects the gold price to rise by 10% in 2018
Professor Thorsten Polleit, Chief Economist at Degussa, Europe's leading investment gold trading company, forecasts that the price of the precious metal will increase by 10% over the course of 2018 and estimates that the Spanish economy will perform positively this year, with growth of [...]