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"¿Cómo haces que un país crezca si le sacas al que produce para darle al que no lo hace?" Aldo Abram

Participación de Aldo Abram, economista y director de Libertad y Progreso, en el programa de Eduardo Feinmann. "Todos siguen con la fantasía de que esto se sale creciendo, pero no se crece sin reformas estructurales" aclara el economista. "Se inventaron más de 170.000 trámites para justificar el crecimiento del empleo público y genera más costo a las empresas" dice el economista. "¿Cómo haces que un país crezca si le sacas al que produce para darle al que no lo hace?" agrega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FANUrx5hWcM&feature=youtu.be
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Aldo Abram: “El reperfilamiento es un hecho gane quién gane”

ECO MEDIOS- El economista  analizó la actualidad política  argentina y lo que se avecina de cara al futuro teniendo en cuenta el escenario mundial.

Sobre el impacto de la crisis económica de Estados Unidos en nuestro país, expresó  “hoy crece la expectativa que haya una nueva baja de la tasa de interés . Hay muchos bancos  que quieren ampliar la liquidez en el mercado  internacional. Si bien hoy somos un país con muchísimo riesgo, por ahí para mejorar el rendimiento de la cartera, algún dólar por ahí puedan poner y nuestros bonos tienden a subir. También generó expectativa el reperfilamiento de la deuda a la uruguaya”.endeudamiento de Argentina En cuanto al reperfilamiento de la deuda opinó que “va a ser un hecho con ambos candidatos. Sigue siendo una realidad que si no se acuerda con el FMI facilidades extendidas que traería  como solución que hay vencimientos fuertes a partir de mediados del 2021, 2022 y 2023, si uno lograría patearlo a 10 años  claramente el perfil de la deuda  se haría más llevadero y ayudaría a mejorar nuestro crédito “. Además analizó el acuerdo social que se realizó al sostener que “Todo el mundo estaba preparándose para ello. No resuelve los problemas  pero brinda contención. Los acuerdos que funcionaron en el mundo, ninguno funcionó acá”. Finalizando la entrevista dio su parecer sobre quién pagará el costo de la crisis económica declarando, “el problema del gobierno de Macri es que no resolvió los problemas y no desaparecen. El costo de no resolver los problemas se va a sobrecargar en el sector privado productivo, lo cual ya no es posible.” NOTA COMPLETA:
 
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“Hay empresarios pymes que pagan hasta un impuesto por día”

DIARIO SAN RAFAEL - La presión impositiva al sector privado sigue siendo un tema de debate entre economistas. Para Iván Cachanosky, de la Fundación Libertad y Progreso, “hay empresarios pymes que pagan hasta un impuesto por día”.Altos impuestos, muchos impuestos La propuesta de Libertad y Progreso es sobre las medidas que deberían anunciar los candidatos para ayudar a los emprendedores. En diálogo con FM Vos (94.5) y Diario San Rafael, Cachanosky dijo que “tanto desde el oficialismo como de la oposición da la impresión que las propuestas tienen más de eslogan que de propuesta concreta, Argentina tiene problemas económicos profundos y ahora hay que votar quién los va a arreglar, pero no se ven propuestas concretas”. “Hay –afirmó– que empezar a debatir si se quiere volver a crecer o seguir financiando un déficit, esto requiere encarar reformas estructurales”. Señaló que “los países que crecen es porque tienen un montón de pequeños emprendimientos, acá hay trabas”. Habló de reforma laboral, impositiva, del Estado, y apuntó que son “cuestiones que se están dejando de lado”. Sobre si las reformas significan más ajuste, dijo que “hay que hablar de algún tipo de ajuste, pero pueden tener amortiguadores sociales. Hay empresarios pymes que pagan hasta 20 impuestos por mes, el mes tiene 20 días hábiles, es decir, que pagan un impuesto por día”. En cuanto a las últimas medidas del Gobierno nacional, que apuntan a alivianar la carga impositiva, opinó que “algunas han sido tomadas en la dirección correcta, tienen que apuntar a las pymes, el tema es que se está haciendo sobre la hora y no del inicio de la gestión”. Añadió que “desde el punto de vista del financiamiento, la relación con el FMI es clave, Argentina el año que viene tiene que afrontar deudas. Esta dureza que se está viendo ahora del FMI debería haber estado antes. Trump ya le soltó la mano a Macri y tenés un FMI que no va a regalar dólares, va a exigir las reformas estructurales; no va a ser una negociación fácil para obtener financiamiento, sí para el pago de la deuda, donde creo que habrá más flexibilidad. Se necesitan 20 mil millones de dólares para cubrir 2020 y Argentina no genera dólares”.
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2019 International Property Rights Index Released

The global index ranks property right protections in 129 countries, covering 98% of world GDP and 94% of the world population
MANILA – Property Rights Alliance is proud to release the 2019 International Property Rights Index in partnership with the Foundation for Economic Freedom and Minimal Government Thinkers in the Philippines. The Index measures the strength of physical property rights, intellectual property rights, and the legal and political environments that enforce them.
Only a tenth of the world’s people live in 20 countries with the strongest protections of property rights. These are also some of the wealthiest countries in the world. In fact, countries in the top quintile of the Index have a per capita income 16 times greater than those at the bottom.
Property rights are a key ingredient for economic and social prosperity. “Poor property rights ecosystems,” writes economist Hernando de Soto, keep “six billion people and their $9.3 billion in capital locked out of the formal economy.”
Lorenzo Montanari, the Executive Director of Property Rights Alliance, said “property rights are human rights, without them people are restrained in how they act, how they speak, and how they participate in the economy.”
Secure property rights have robust correlations with other indicators of economic freedom and social well-being. If people are confident their property is safe: that they can purchase, sell, and value their properties in a free marketplace – it invites entrepreneurship, reduces corruption, increases civic participation, and raises long term investment in research & development.
Key Findings
Finland remains 1st overall in protection of property rights, experiences a slight decrease in the legal and political environment.
United States experienced increases in all categories and moves passed Denmark and the United Kingdom on the way from 14th to 12th in property rights protections overall. The United States leads the world in copyright and patent intellectual property protections.
South Africa continues its steep decline from 26th in 2017 to 48th in 2019. Last year the RSA saw the steepest drop (-.65 points) this year it experienced the second largest drop (-.27 points), behind Rwanda (-.29) and before Qatar (-.25), for continued land expropriation without compensation plans.
In Asia, increases in property rights, notably by China (36%), Indonesia (30%), and the Philippines (20%) since the Index began in 2007 have helped billions reach moderate levels of protection.
While the trade war between China and the Unites States has drawn attention to the importance of intellectual property rights, the IP gap remains the same. Western Europe and North American continue to lead the world in intellectual property protections with an average score 39 percent greater than the rest of the world.
Closing this gap is “key to transitioning from an extractive economy to one that competes in products and services only limited by the human imagination,” said Montanari, “too often valuable ideas and art are stolen while governments turn a blind eye, or indeed participate” he said.
Case Studies
Innovation and Intellectual Property Right in the Age of Competitiveness: The Case of India, By Dr. Amit Kapoor, Institute for Competitiveness (India)
Banning Brand – Economic and Consumer Impact of Plain Packaging, By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr., Minimal Government Thinkers (The Philippines)
Innovation and Economic Freedom in Brazilian Telecommunications Markets, By Julian Alexienco Portillo , Prof. Álvaro Alves Moura Jr. and Prof. Vladimir Fernandes Maciel, Mackenzie Center for Economic Freedom (Brazil)
Using Data Rights to Encourage Sustainable Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, By Ryan Khurana, Institute for Advancing Prosperity (Canada)
Belt and Road Initiative and Its Effects on Intellectual Property: The Case of Italy, By Giacomo Bandini, Competere (Italy)
Mexico: A Policy Agenda on Property Rights for the XXIst Century, By Manuel Jose Molano Ruiz, Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (Mexico)
The Problem of Squatting in Italy: A New Approach by the Courts, By Giuseppe Portonera, Istituto Bruno Leoni (Italy)
5 Years of the World’s Property Rights, By Prof. Jhoner Perdomo (Universidad Central de Venezuela) and Prof. Sary Levy-Carciente (National Academy of Economics Sciences of Venezuela)
Read Executive Summary here
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Argentina needs to make structural reforms to grow again

Xinhuanet - Argentina needs to carry out a series of structural reforms, including labor and tax matters, to return to the path of economic growth, the Argentine economist said on Wednesday. Natalia Motyl, an analyst with Fundación Libertad y Progreso, said in an interview with Xinhua that the various reform attempts in the country “have failed because two types of balance coexist, the political and the economic. Among them, there is a constant ‘trade-off’ and both bid to impose themselves. «On the one hand, there are the political interests, trying to get votes for four years, for the next election and on the other, the economic interest that would allow us to get out of the successive economic crises. Evidently, many of these reforms have a political cost and that is why the political ruling class tries to postpone the reforms later and thus hold in power as much as they can ”said the analyst. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its report on World Economic Outlook on Wednesday and a document entitled "Restarting the growth of the emerging and low-income market", in which it analyzes the situation of different countries that have made reforms and places the Argentine economy among the most failed, along with Mexico, Nigeria and the Philippines, when implementing structural reforms that allow it to approach the standard of living of developed countries. Motyl said she agreed "completely with the diagnosis of the IMF. In order to grow, Argentina clearly needs to carry out a series of structural reforms, including labor reform, to provide greater flexibility to the labor market, and tax reform, through lower tax pressure, which currently exceeds 30% of GDP and It is regressive ». «However, in order to carry out this type of reform, it is necessary, in the long term, a sustainable fiscal adjustment in the long term via reduction of public expenditure and not, as the agency had been endorsing so far, through a rise in taxes that drown the private sector even more, ”said the expert. The economist remarked that «the IMF until now has not been a strong figure when it comes to the herculean task of demanding our country the reforms necessary to grow. Rather, it endorsed a gradualist policy, which further sharpened the economic crisis. At the moment we have the same problems as four years ago, but now we are indebted ». Argentina last year signed an agreement with the multilateral agency to access a loan for 56.3 billion dollars, of which it received about 44.1 billion. A disbursement of $ 5.4 billion is pending due to political and financial uncertainty in the country following the reversal of the Mauricio Macri government in the primary elections held on August 11. In its report on Wednesday 9, the IMF said that Argentina carried out a series of reforms between 1988 and 1997, but the result was not as expected, of approaching the standard of living of developed countries, but the opposite, a distance of 1,5% per annum in the period 1998-2007. The structural reforms advocated by the IMF include releasing key areas of the economy, such as finance, commerce, product markets or labor deregulation. For Motyl, Argentina will recover the path of economic growth if “a labor reform, a tax reform that includes the reform of federal tax co-participation, commercial opening, an educational reform and achieving a healthy currency prosper. Each of them are necessary and essential to be able to get out of this stagnation in which we are for a decade. «Need, in order to carry them out, a strong political figure will be needed to encourage them. I do not think there is much more room for maneuver to try something different given the delicate situation we are in, ”he warned. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) released in mid-September, the level of unemployment in Argentina increased in the second quarter of the year to 10.6%, affecting about 2.1 million people. In addition, to the contraction of Argentina's economy, estimated by INDEC at 2.5 percent at the end of the first half of the year, there is an accumulated inflation of 30 percent in the first eight months of the year, which makes it difficult for thousands of households in the country to make ends meet. The economist emphasized that “there are no magic formulas and postponing reforms, which are inevitable, makes the situation worse. However, sometimes it is better to take risks and face the situation as early as possible. Otherwise, what happened to President Macri could happen. That is, he continued, “the initial problems later became a reduction in governance and economic tension affected the political equilibrium If they had made the reforms four years ago, when they assumed the current government, today the story could be different, both for the ruling party and for the rest of the Argentines.   By Natalia Motyl
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