Portugal will once again be a rich country – Observer
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It has been made public, through the media, commentators and politicians, that Portugal could become a country with a per capita income above 80% of the European average. If true, the pockets of the Portuguese were filling up to such an extent that the effects of inflation and rising interest rates would have no effect on family budgets.
Aware of the causes that can produce such consequences, namely the entry to the European Union of countries such as Ukraine, with a population above the EU country average, which will influence the European Per Capita GDP, adding poor countries such as Moldova, Georgia and Montenegro, with a per capita income in the order of 30% of the European average, Portugal, through this arithmetic assessment, will rise to a top value close to the average of rich countries.
Anyone who thinks we don’t need to change the economic direction and maintain the growth trajectory is wrong, as happened with Socrates in 2010, when our per capita income was already above 80% and we weren’t rich either. Calculations, formulas and comparative statistics are not always synonymous with wealth.
It is necessary to copy the economic models of success, work and entrepreneurship and claim the competitive political class, with cheap economy, tax reduction in the economies that are possible, abolition of superfluous fees to be able to go up and greater awareness Keeping our product tradable in markets international.
It is true that today the tourism sector contributes a lot to sustainable development and that we can no longer live without it, either because of its contribution to GDP, or because of the diversification of employment and its fiscal contribution that helps to balance the general budget of the State.
The private sector does its part in the most diverse economic sectors and there is a counter available for complementary services where the Portuguese State presents itself as deficient.
The State and fiscal health, where education for its government, has never had so much to contribute to social security and provide good service service. In addition, a cushion to modernize and contribute to public management, only RR government of the private sector 1 /15 bring a check for 15.0 million euros and leverage that to the private sector, which, through selected and sponsored candidacies, are left with only the share of 900 million. Imagine what the private sector could do with the amount that TAP will receive in its coffers.
Yes, it is necessary to “beat” equitable injustice. Because we want to grow and have a per capita income above the European average and a rapprochement with rich countries, the time has come for us to be able to claim more PRR funds from the private sector because only the private sector can do it. Welcome to the projects presented by several consortia, which will be studied companies, universities and research centers where they will amount to a total investment value of 10,000 million and only contemplated with a rate of 9%.
Portugal once again has an opportunity that it cannot miss. These new community vacancies must be on the side of entrepreneurial companies, allied to the university, they can strengthen the bet on new clusters, being able to increase the Portuguese economy, products and services for or decades. And there is no doubt that the best prepared, most innovative and most exporting geographical position is the northwest of Portugal, specifically the area that goes from Aveiro to the upper Minho, passing through the metropolitan area of Porto, the region of Vale do Sousa and Tâmega and the Cávado region, because it is the region that has already proved that it knows how to use European funds to reinvent its clusters traditional, whether in agri-food and beverages; textiles, clothing and apparel; cork, wood or furniture; ceramics and building materials; molds and plastics; mechanics, electrical material, metal construction, shipbuilding and other large industrial equipment, without forgetting the set car. In fact, all this is reflected in a study by economist consultant José Félix, from the Gulbenkian Foundation, which the Faculty of Engineering of Porto joined, and which now must also have a strategic vision to invest in what the world market will consume: mobility electric car, where we have the development of the future by Bosch, the electric car of the electric car of the future by Bosch, the electric car designed for the future by Bosch Bus, as intelligent automotive networks of engineering by Altice Automóvel, navigation and automotive transport connectivity railways, aeronautical and space engineering, ocean engineering and subsea technologies, automation and robotics, telecommunications networks and services, business software, commerce solutions, digital transactions and transactions, digital media and interactive multimedia content, pharmacy, biotechnology for health and biomedical finance or wind renewable finance. When talking about these energies, the development of the new wind towers of the new generation of the company A. Silva Matos, solar thermal and photovoltaic, is a reference.
In short, this entire region must continue to bet on what it is already strong in, maintaining its leadership in clusters Now, through more recognized processes and more respected products, with fashion and more respect for the environment.
On the other hand, transport, in these new areas that allow the world to be more sustainable: clean, green and autonomous energies and all the information management that can help and improve people’s daily lives, which will imply “greater cooperation” between universities, universities and government around projects.
The companies with the biggest and most important jobs must be among universities, politicians or technological centers to offer exports, generators of great added and qualified value.
This alone can increase our per capita income!