The current economic pattern is collapsing

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The crisis of the western world
The current economic pattern is collapsing
By: Carlos Damian January 30, 2012
They are unsuccessful recipes those that are impelled in Europe
Mexico. - The staunchest capitalist, David Rubinstein, is not doubt that that system specifies reformations. Participant during the World Economic Forum (WEF). The cofounder of the Carlyle Group, of which are part the biggest financial investors in the planet, makes a blink to words of Winston Churchill, pointing out that “it is the worst economic form that exists, if one doesn't keep in mind everything the rest". He wonders who in 1912 it could predict how it will develop the capitalism of the XX century. "Now we have already passed 12 percent of the new century, so it would be necessary to trust something the capitalism", he pointed. "They pay taxes and (at least) the minimum salary to their employees", Burrow requested.

The activists are still in the streets that on Wednesday (1/25/12), they made walk imaginary dogs in the main avenue of Davos like a symbolic form of “tying to the consortia". When the big consortia abroad violate the environmental norms it should be requested responsibilities in their country, Lorenz Kummer exposed, member of the organization of help to the development Swissaid, and he complained: "politics and world economy are globalists for some time. There are only frontiers for the right". The first Finland’s minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen, says that one needs a normative one common and that the European institutions look after its good operation and implementation, he affirmed, refuting the growing voices that they request a reconstruction of Europe to make it more efficient.

You are not slave of the system
Some of the measures to improve the distribution of the entrance according to the experts are: to increase the production of foods, to improve their distribution and to reduce the prices at the time that the environment is respected are the big challenges to eradicate the hunger and to feed a population that grows exponentially. Forty percent of the foods that take place in the planet gets lost or it is wasted, and not only in the countries in development, the executive director of the World Program of Foods remembered (WPF), Josette Sheeran. To feed the growing population world -7 thousand millions at the moment - they need to raise the production of foods 70 percent toward 2050, he pointed.

For that reason, more than in any other sector, new models are required that ally to producing with companies distributors, the president of Unilever, Paul Polman outlined, who he remembered that in next 30 years they will waste away as many foods as in the last ones ten thousand. Polman participated in a debate -during the WEF -, next to the American manager Bill Gates and the director of the Organization of United Nations for the Agriculture and the Feeding the Brazilian Jose Graziano da Silva, among other experts. They pointed out that long term it is necessary to invest 80 thousand million dollars annual to increase the production 30 percent, but the great challenge is how to combine that increment and the improvement in the distribution with the reduction of emissions of dioxide of carbon (causing of the global heating), and to guarantee the access to the water.

In 20 years it will fall the production of cereals for lack of water
The experts assure that to begin, political will, and definition of a politics is needed in that topic. The French agriculture minister, He Polishes Maire whose country was able to put in the calendar of the G-20 the topic of the alimentary security, it assured that at the moment political will exists of making in front of this challenge, for that which is necessary to invent new financial tools that support the practical measures. This way, besides credits to the small producers, they become indispensable the insurance against the climatic disasters, Stefab Lippe, resident of the Swiss Re reinsurance, it pointed out.

The president of the Swiss multinational, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, noticed that the lack of water will be accentuated in next two decades, what will reduce it added; the grain production in a third and it could feed the social revolts. For the magnate Gates, founder of Microsoft, the most interesting in the G-20 is that in it Brazil and China are sitting, two of the big agricultural powers. A dynamics is also given of taking of conscience of the urgencies in the poor countries that, conjugated to the interest of the private sector, they could increase the production considerably who pointed out that the capitalism “doesn't solve everything."

Africa is the continent more affected by the famine, but it is presented as the great reservation of arable lands of the planet, coveted especially by China that is making enormous investments there, the minister of finances of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, she remembered and it recognized that its country imports foods that could take place locally. For Jose Graziano, initial responsible for the successful program ' Zero Famine” in Brazil, at the moment the problem is not so much the production, but guaranteeing access to the foods to the poorest.

The national economy grows in slow form
The governor of the Bank of Mexico, Agustin Carstens (AC), it reiterated the presage of growth of 3.5 percent of the Mexican economy in 2012, in declarations of Notimex. AC is part of the Mexican delegation that participates in the edition 42 of the FEM that is made in Davos, Switzerland. According to AC who attended on Thursday to the Mexican president's main intervention in the forum, “the domestic economy is behaving well, although not growing quick". That much still depends on the growth of our exports toward The States", it expressed. It also pointed out that in 2012, the economy of The States will grow quicker than the European, but still not near its potential."

On the other hand, he affirms in the case of Mexico: “it could have an eventual problem due to the channel of investments", for the flows, and he insisted in that the threat for the country would be forged, “far away, of the other side of the loch", even. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2-4, January 27, 2012).