The Keys to the House

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 05/22/16. Venezuela is one step away from bankruptcy...again. It will be the seventh bankruptcy since 1950, a world record. And we won't see a controlled and orderly bankruptcy, no. We will witness a disorderly bankruptcy in the style of the Argentine of 2001, and of a size [...]

Worst of mediocre

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 15/05/16. This week the Rankings ISSUE (Synthetic Indicators of the Spanish University System) for the year 2016 have been published. These rankings aim to generate rankings of Spanish universities based on extensive sets of information, which include the three main dimensions of [...]

Slowdown continues

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 08/05/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the month of April 2016 amounted to 242,063 people, with a decrease of 825 people compared to the previous month and 11,953 people compared to April 2015. Despite the media importance [...]

How many autonomies are necessary?

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 01/05/16. What criteria does the current regional map meet? Let's be clear: none. How was it elaborated? Without previously establishing any rational design, but taking into account political conveniences, arrangements and agreements behind the scenes. It was done foolishly and without the slightest rigor. [...]

Pimelia Canariensis

Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco Díaz in La Gaveta Económica in the April 2016 issue. At the end of 2010, my third book appeared in bookstores, entitled "The necessary reform. Canary Islands in the face of the crisis of our lives". The fifth chapter dealt with the new Canarian socio-economy, which by virtue of [...]

- First aid kit, oxygen.

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/24/16. The Government of Spain has asked Brussels to postpone the fiscal consolidation of the general government deficit by one year. Thus, from an expected deficit of 2.8% of GDP in 2016, it has gone to 3.6%. Those eight tenths are divided between [...]

Panama City, Panama

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 04/17/16. The appearance of the so-called "Panama Papers" is a massive leak of 11.5 million documents that has exposed the relationship of important world figures with the Panamanian law firm Fonseca, the fifth largest in the country. Spain, there would be more to come, has [...]

Downhill, again

Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/04/16. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the month of March 2016 amounted to 242.88 people, with a decrease of 744 people compared to the previous month and 13,963 people compared to March 2015. Despite the media importance [...]

PHILIP MORRIS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

PMI Entrepreneurship Program 2016 ● Philip Morris International (PMI) and MBA Business School call for Scholarships for entrepreneurs in the ● Canary Islands. Three seed capital prizes of almost 10,000 euros each will be awarded. ● All participants will be able to participate in MBA Mentoring and Management Improvement Training.