{"id":24274,"date":"2017-09-13T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/economic-panorama-of-greece\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T21:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:29:59","slug":"economic-panorama-of-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/economic-panorama-of-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Panorama of Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uncertainty and Concern in and environment full of changes<\/strong><\/p>\n

While young people appeal for jobs with decent pay, and the elderly complain over the payment of their persons, the Greek government has other ideas in mind. This is the result of over thirty years of \u00a8parting\u00a8 during which the Greek nation maintained a steady increase of public debt, benefits and increases in salaries to state employees, grants to state and semi state bodies and corruption in tax agencies.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the Greeks, the party ended.<\/p>\n

With a public debt amounting to 350.000 million euros, and tight control by the \u00a8troika\u00a8 (That is how is known the group formed by the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank) the Greek government is under scrutiny.\u00a0 Its president, Karolos Popuilas, has invited leaders of political parties, both government and opposition to reach consensus on new measures of austerity that requires Greece to end the crisis that has been afflicting them for more than a year.<\/p>\n

Greece requires additional steps if they want to receive the second emergency payment of EUR 110.000 million that has been allocated by the International Monetary Fund to rescue its economy.<\/p>\n

Measures
\n<\/strong>In addition to measures that were implemented just over a year ago, among which are the reduction in pension, tax increase, decrease in state salaries, and a gradual increase in retirement age, other provisions surface.\u00a0 On this occasion, introducing and additional reduction of pensions, increase the value added tax (VAT) of soft drinks, spirits and the tobacco derived products, added to a sales plan of more than EUR 300.000 billion in state assets.\u00a0 The latter, which analyzes the privatization of several state enterprises, must culminate by the end of 2014 and plans to reduce public debt of Greece by 50.000 billion euros.<\/p>\n

Opposition
\n<\/strong>On the other hand, the Greek opposition leaders are skeptical about the new measures that the government is considering in implementing.\u00a0 For many, the quality of live and morale of the Greek citizen will suffer a blow stronger than the ones received last year.\u00a0 A rise in unemployment is feared generated by massive layoffs and a negative impact on public safety.\u00a0 Also with the new measures the opposition predicts a lack of private investment caused by the doubt generate in these moments of crisis, and a lack of capital injection from the government.<\/p>\n

Panorama
\n<\/strong>It is true that Greece is in economic trouble.\u00a0 However, from someone\u00b4s pocket the money should come out of.\u00a0 Consequently, if the debt is from Greece, it is the responsibility of the Greeks pay.\u00a0 It is not the time to expect that taxpayers in other countries should assume that responsibility.<\/p>\n

The Panorama of Greece\u00b4s economy in the short term does not look very positive.\u00a0 Many additional sacrifices must the Greek people endure to help pay its debt.\u00a0 Considering that the country failed to meet its deficit reduction goal that was imposed in 2010, for 2011 the measures must be extreme.<\/p>\n

If this does not happen, Greece will continue to plunge into the red numbers, the future their finances in administration of third-parties and the Greek people without alternatives.<\/p>\n

Once again\u2026uncertainty and concern in an environment full of changes.<\/p>\n

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Incertidumbre y preocupaci\u00f3n en un ambiente colmado de cambios<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mientras los j\u00f3venes apelan por puestos de trabajos con un salario digno, y los mayores se quejan por el pago de sus pensiones, el gobierno griego tiene otras ideas en mente. Esta es la consecuencia de los m\u00e1s de treinta a\u00f1os de \u201cfiesta\u201ddurante los cuales la naci\u00f3n griega sostuvo un incremento sostenido en la deuda p\u00fablica, beneficios e incrementos en salarios a los empleados del estado, subsidios a entidades estatales y semi estatales y corrupci\u00f3n en sus organismos fiscales. Lamentablemente para los griegos, la fiesta termin\u00f3.<\/p>\n

Con una deuda p\u00fablica que asciende a los 350,000 millones de euros, y un control f\u00e9rreo por parte de la \u201ctroika\u201d (as\u00ed se le conoce al grupo conformado por la Comisi\u00f3n Europea, el Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Central Europeo) el gobierno griego est\u00e1 bajo la lupa. Su presidente, KarolosPapoulias, ha convocado a los l\u00edderes de los partidos pol\u00edticos, tanto de gobierno como de oposici\u00f3n, para llegar a un consenso en cuanto a las nuevas medidas de austeridad que requiere Grecia para salir de la crisis que la acongoja desde hace m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o.
\nGrecia requiere de medidas adicionales si desea recibir el segundo pago de los 110,000 millones de euros de emergencia que ha destinado el Fondo Monetario Internacional para el rescate de su econom\u00eda.<\/p>\n

Medidas
\n<\/strong>Adem\u00e1s de las medidas que se implementaron hace poco m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o, dentro de las cuales se encuentra la disminuci\u00f3n en las pensiones, el aumento de impuestos, la disminuci\u00f3n en los salarios estatales, y un aumento paulatino en la edad de jubilaci\u00f3n, salen otras provisiones. En esta ocasi\u00f3n,\u00a0 se instaura una disminuci\u00f3n adicional a las pensiones, un incremento al impuesto al valor agregado (IVA) de refrescos, licores y productos derivados del tabaco, sumado a un plan de venta de m\u00e1s de 300,000 millones de euros en activos del estado. Este \u00faltimo, el cual analiza la privatizaci\u00f3n de varias empresas estatales, deber\u00e1 culminar a finales del a\u00f1o 2014 y prev\u00e9 reduzca la deuda p\u00fablica de Grecia en 50,000 millones de euros.<\/p>\n

Oposici\u00f3n
\n<\/strong>Por otro lado, los l\u00edderes de la oposici\u00f3n griega se encuentran esc\u00e9pticos en cuanto a las nuevas medidas que considera implementar el gobierno de turno. Para muchos, la calidad de vida y la moral del ciudadano griego van a sufrir un golpe m\u00e1s fuerte que aquel recibido el a\u00f1o pasado. Se teme un alza en la taza de desempleo generado por despidos masivos y un impacto negativo a la seguridad ciudadana. Adem\u00e1s, con las nuevas medidas la oposici\u00f3n pronostica una falta de inversi\u00f3n privada causada por la duda que generan los momentos de crisis, y una falta de inyecci\u00f3n de capital por parte del gobierno.<\/p>\n

Panorama<\/strong><\/p>\n

Es cierto que Grecia se encuentra en problemas econ\u00f3micos. Sin embargo, de alg\u00fan bolsillo debe salir el dinero. En consecuencia, si la deuda es de Grecia, corresponde a los griegos pagarla. No es momento de esperar que los contribuyentes de otros pa\u00edses asuman esa responsabilidad.<\/p>\n

El panorama econ\u00f3mico de Grecia en el corto plazo no se ve muy positivo. Muchos sacrificios adicionales deber\u00e1 llevar a cabo el pueblo griego para contribuir al pago de su deuda p\u00fablica.\u00a0 Si consideramos que el pa\u00eds no cumpli\u00f3 con la meta de reducci\u00f3n del d\u00e9ficit que se impuso en el a\u00f1o 2010, para el a\u00f1o 2011 las medidas deber\u00e1n ser extremas.<\/p>\n

Si esto no ocurre, Grecia seguir\u00e1 sumergi\u00e9ndose en n\u00fameros rojos, el futuro de sus finanzas en la administraci\u00f3n de terceros y el pueblo griego sin alternativas.<\/p>\n

Una vez m\u00e1s\u2026 incertidumbre y preocupaci\u00f3n en una ambiente colmado de cambios.<\/p>\n

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Uncertainty and Concern in and environment full of changes While young people appeal for jobs with decent pay, and the elderly complain over the payment of their persons, the Greek government has other ideas in mind. This is the result of over thirty years of \u00a8parting\u00a8 during which the Greek nation maintained a steady increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morimor.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}