Knock Knock Knock, Is Portugal going to stay behind again?
Knock Knock Knock, Is Portugal going to stay behind again? Reading an article of Prefessor Fernando Alexandre, Professor at School of Economics and Management at Minho university , about the austerity in Portugal, in the online news paper called Eco , I faced a quote that made me thing about Portugal in this new world. Translating into english what he said, in portuguese, one has: “ We should be discussing other issue. Such as, how to be competitive in a world that lives once again a technological revolution? What to do, to not be left behind? Why is the investment falling since the begining of the XXI century? For what reason the most qualified labor force ever, do not figure out into productivity statistics?” According to Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis in their last paper, FROM CONVERGENCE TO DIVERGENCE: PORTUGUESE DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1500-1850 , Portugal had a long period, almost three and an half century, of both demographic and economic growth. Portugal had one o...