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Index Of Economic Freedom


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corrigez le wall street journal grace à cet article

http://MISES.ORG/fullstory.aspx?Id=1724

Tout index est contestable (mon préféré est celui de Forbes : http://www.forbes.com/global/2003/0526/030chart.html ), mais quand plusieurs index convergent pour mettre un pays… à l'index, c'est qu'on a un faisceau de présomptions en général assez révélateur sur ce qui se passe dans ce pays.

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Ouais, l'index n'est pas parfait mais franchement il est globalement un bon indicateur.

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En plus, ceux qui rédigent les commentaires n'ont que faire des circonlocutions habituelles lorsque un pays est décrit par sa presse nationale:

Being the de facto European capital, its economy is massively service-oriented. It is heavily dominated by regional headquarters of multinationals, by European institutions, by the still heavily (over)populated Belgian administrations, and by related services. Brussels also has more commuters coming mainly from Flanders, closely followed by commuters from Wallonia (and far smaller numbers of commuters from the Netherlands and France), then local employment. Within Brussels, the unemployment rate is higher than in the other Belgian regions (currently above 20%!). This is mainly explained by a combination of:

a local public policy widely recognised as bureaucratic, insensitive and rather hostile towards private companies;

higher taxation rates then in Flanders and Wallonia

a high percentage of mono-lingual French-speakers (Flemings in Brussels generally speak two languages or more), combined with mismatch between education and labour market needs (tellingly the Brussels-based VW car manufacturing plant found only 7% of its latest new employees in the Brussels region, mainly because of sheer absence of technically trained people in Brussels);

a high percentage of immigrants (>25%) with an average education level far below that of native Belgians;

extremely poorly functioning public employment agency and more in general public administrations and local political institutions showing sub-standard performance (somewhat 'boxing above their weight' compared especially with Flemish institutions). Nevertheless, the international role of Brussels provides Belgium with unique opportunities for economic growth. Private companies and international experts stress that improvements can be made (and quite rapidly) by much better education / retraining of the unemployed (both in technical as in language skills), by slimming down public bureaucracy and regulations, and trough significantly better cooperation with Flemish and Walloon authorities.

J'attends de lire ces évidences à quiconque vit à Bruxelles dans un des journaux nationaux censés nous informer…

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Je ne suis pas tout à fait d'accord avec ce texte. Il est tout à fait juste en ce qui concerne l'attitude de l'administration, mais il néglige la discrimination anti-francophones qu'exercent la plupart des Flamands à des postes de responsabilité.

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