"So what can Greece do? It really has only one option—to make the economy more productive and, above all, to export more. It’s easy to focus on Greece’s huge pile of debt, but, according to Yannis Ioannides, an economist at Tufts University, “debt is ultimately the lesser problem. Productivity and the lack of competitive exports are the much more important ones.”.
Depois, o século XX:
"There are structural issues that make this challenging. Greece is never going to be a manufacturing powerhouse: almost half of all Greek manufacturers have fewer than fifty employees, which limits productivity and efficiency, since they don’t enjoy economies of scale."Um mindset típico do século XX, em que só há uma forma de competir: o preço.
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Em Portugal, dados do INE de 2010:
"As micro, pequenas e médias empresas (PME) portuguesas representam 99,9% do tecido empresarial português"Como se o calçado, o têxtil, o mobiliário, a cerâmica, ... repousassem nas economias de escala para exportar mais e ganhar a preferência dos clientes.
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E é esta gente que aconselha o governo grego...
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No entanto, tanto material para um choque de arte, para um choque de concorrência imperfeita, para uma actuação à la David:
"And reform doesn’t mean Greece needs to abandon the things that make it distinctive. In fact, in the case of exports, the country has important assets that it hasn’t taken full advantage of. Greek olive oil is often described as the best in the world. Yet sixty per cent of Greek oil is sold in bulk to Italy, which then resells it at a hefty markup. Greece should be processing and selling that oil itself, and similar stories could be told about feta cheese and yogurt;"
Trechos retirados de "How Can Greece Take Charge?"
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