INFARMED – Deslocação provinciana, bacoca, papalva e patética

 

O nosso 1º ministro já nos habituou a brindar-nos com ideias bacocas e provincianas e com decisões anacrónicas, tudo demonstrativo de uma ausência total de competência para dirigir o nosso país.

Na linha do que anteriormente foi referenciado, brindou-nos ontem com mais uma das suas “pérolas”, deslocando o INFARMED para o norte, no início de 2019, alegadamente porque a localidade do norte que concorreu à captação da Agência Europeia do Medicamento, não ter conseguido tal desidrato. E assim, á boa maneira provinciana e papalva – “não conseguiste, pois tens aqui a troca”.

Mas temos que colocar as coisas como elas são e no seu devido lugar.

Á boa maneira portuguesa, é extremamente difícil reconhecer-se o mérito dos nossos concorrentes e o nosso demérito.

Quando se soube da decisão, logo vieram os populistas e provincianos arautos do bota abaixo, dizer que houve um “complot” entre outros países europeus, presumivelmente com maior poder decisório, que atiraram a AEM para outra cidade.

Nada de mais patético!

A única cidade portuguesa que teria condições (de todo o género) para competir com outras cidades europeias concorrentes, era Lisboa. Doa a quem doer, particularmente aos provincianos.

Não há volta a dar.

Soube-se, aliás, um pouco mais cedo, que os próprios trabalhadores da AEM confrontados com a possibilidade da Agência se deslocar para o norte do país, manifestaram de imediato a sua grande preocupação e descontentamento.

Portanto, foi perdida e bem perdida. Há que reconhecer mérito a quem ganhou e ponto final, deixando-se de quixotescas apreciações sobre o desenrolar de todo o processo, que aliás, só vem confirmar a falta de arcaboiço para receber esta instituição.

Perda consumada, eis que surge o inteligente 1º ministro, á laia de compensação, e á força bruta, a “dar” o INFARMED á localidade do norte de Portugal.

Acaso o 1º ministro quis ouvir as opiniões dos que lá trabalham?

Certamente que não morarão na Avenida do Brasil, mas 100% morarão em Lisboa ou na Grande Lisboa.

Imaginou o iluminado 1º ministro de Portugal, o transtorno que essa mudança irá causar, no contexto pessoal e familiar, a todos os trabalhadores do INFARMED?

Como de costume, tudo feito em cima do joelho, com o desejo de agradar ao norte, não pensou nas consequências da sua douta decisão.

Este é só mais um episódio, dos muitos que se vêm avolumando demonstrativos da falta de tacto, do provincianismo deste nosso 1º ministro.

Nunca deveria ter existido qualquer tipo de compensação!

Concorreu, perdeu – ponto final!

Não é certamente com esta falta de habilidade que iremos a parte alguma, pelo menos a partes que nos conduzam no caminho do progresso e do reconhecimento, que tanto procuramos atingir.

Uma última palavra para os trabalhadores do INFARMED: lutem com os meios legais que tenham á mão para fazer valer os vossos direitos e sobretudo, pelo respeito que lhes é devido, e que pela forma como o processo se desenrolou (decisão), tudo foi menos no respeito por todos aqueles que trabalham no INFARMED.

 

Bank of Portugal raises economic growth outlook for 2017-19

The Bank of Portugal sharply raised its economic growth outlook for this year to 2.5 percent from 1.8 percent and, although it still expected a slowdown later on, also upped the forecast through 2019 citing strong exports and improving investment.

 In its quarterly economic bulletin, the central bank said the economy, which last year expanded 1.4 percent, should grow 2 percent next year and 1.8 percent in 2019, which compares to its previous assessment in March, at 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent respectively.
“Portugal’s GDP growth will be above that projected the whole of the euro zone, somewhat reversing the negative difference accumulated over the past few years,” it said.

“The GDP forecast is revised upwards for all of the projected period, reflecting the vigorous dynamics of exports and investment,” it said, adding that the government needs to continue to focus on cutting the budget deficit and public debt.

Last year, Portugal reported a budget deficit of 2 percent of GDP - its lowest mark since at least 1975.

It expects the country’s exports to jump almost 10 percent this year, then rise 6.8 percent in 2018 and add another 4.8 percent the following year.

The gross fixed capital formation, which measures investment, slipped 0.1 percent in 2016 but should rise 8.8 percent this year and over 5 percent in each of the following two years.
In another upbeat prediction, the central bank said the unemployment rate should fall below 10 percent this year from last year’s 11.1 percent and keep falling to hit 7 percent in 2019. It expects the jobless rate to end 2017 at 9.4 percent, which would be its lowest level since 2008.

Towards the end of Portugal’s 2011-14 economic and debt crisis, unemployment hit a record of over 17 percent and has been falling steadily since as the economy returned to growth after the worst recession since the 1970s.

My vision (contribute) of United Nations Reform.


Reforming the UN and its multiple Agencies, is to streamline processes of evaluation and decision; is to understand the needs of today's world and to adapt interventions; is knowing how to use the appropriate ways to unlock adverse situations, but above all, to find people who know what to do, how to do and when to do it.

It is to find people, preferably outside the comfort zone of diplomats and other agents of the bureaucracy's corridors, people who have corporate prestige, who have embraced and solved major challenges, with their professional experience in the business environment, to adapt these skills and turn them into real help to the UN.

Overcoming this moment of clear difficulty is not easy. We all know.
Without wanting to make any kind of criticism to those who run Institutions with these characteristics, what happens is that for the most part, the political condition ends up overlapping the economic / financial dimension, with which the resolution of the problems must be faced and this dimension, ends up muddling a line of action very focused on reversing a problem and finding a lasting solution.

I think very clearly that the strategic vision of those who are "outsiders" of the Institution, who have had a solid experience in the financial and economic field, who have proven their ability to approach difficult situations, can make all the difference, - "to do more, with less means", and also, to be able to obtain other means, to help in the accomplishment of objectives.

 Obviously, the Entrepreneurial approach is different from the Institutional approach, but what I am advocating is an "approximation" of business methods (management and optimization of resources) to the institution's perspective.

I know and imagine that most of the cadres who work at UN come from the institutions and from their political aspect, lacking the vision of the company, and how to calculate it, the difficulty of management is Herculean. Hence, think that to overcome short / medium term difficulties, only with the help of someone who has a great experience in the financial / economic business área.

UN pursues the achievement of objectives that should be reconcilable, with a far-reaching strategic vision and involving "civil society".
The opening of projects to the participation of other institutions of reference should be multiplied. Attracting private interest to UN objectives should be a priority. The generic reform of UN should be initiated in order to adapt to the new conditions that the world today configures.

All this, will be very difficult to carry out, by someone who has always lived in the Institutional sphere. You will have difficulty understanding. It will be much more difficult to rationalize the whole environment, to transform it. 

 The future is uncertain! Today more than in the past.

But if we do nothing, it will certainly be even more difficult than the present.
UN and it Agencies, must begin as soon as possible to prepare for the future. And to do so, you must first align the present; devise a strategic vision that puts you back where you should have always been.

The lack of funding for UN projects, particularly from the United States, could be captured again. But for this to happen, it is necessary to show a new vision, more appropriate to the present time, that is optimizing its resources, that can show results, without deviating one millimeter from its broad areas of action.

Show rationality in the application of your resources. Probably, cuts will have to be made in delegations, agencies, activities and participation. We must ask for greater participation and commitment of all.

I believe there will be waste that is urgent to eliminate.
Leverage and maximize skills has to be a priority.

Any financier wants to see results!

It does not want to see its money (public money) being spent on initiatives or structures that are set off from a reality, which has become increasingly small, and will continue to be so.
This adjustment requires anyone who knows how to do it. Not only for the survival of the Institution, but also for its prestige and who has its management in charge.

Portugal Economic Outlook

The economy continues to make progress towards restoring the growth momentum seen before the 2008 financial crisis.

In September, the economic activity indicator—published by the EU’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs—rose to the highest level since March 2000.

Underpinning the rise was an ongoing expansion in the construction sector, driven by demand from the flourishing tourism sector.

Business confidence also remained high in the month, and latest figures show industrial output growth surged in August.

Consumer confidence, however, deteriorated in September over less favorable perceptions about the general economic situation over the next twelve months.

 On 13 October, the Finance Ministry unveiled key features of the planned 2018 budget.

Notable proposals include reducing the budget deficit to 1.0% of GDP, raising the number of tax brackets from five to seven to ease the tax burden for some earners and introducing higher taxes for certain packaged foods that contain high levels of salt.

Moreover, the government forecasts the debt burden dropping to 123.5% of GDP in 2018.