The importance of external conditions
Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in the Gaveta Económica in the November 2015 issue. A few days ago, a senior official of the Government of the Canary Islands and a businessman asked me about my vision of the short and medium-term future of the Canary Islands economy. My answer surprised them greatly, basically because […]
The difficult estimation of seats in the next elections
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 11/22/15. At Corporación 5 we have been conducting market research for more than eighteen years through our subsidiary SAO, and we are well aware of the difficulties of translating the estimate of votes into seats for general elections. At Corporación 5-SAO we have our own methodology […]
Will things go "better than expected"?
Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in La Gaveta Económica in the October 2015 issue. In my analysis last month, I ended by writing that the economic outlook was only overshadowed by the slowdown in China, the Catalan elections and the General Elections in Spain. Well, China will indeed grow less than 7%, but it will continue […]
Exit from the recession, but not from the crisis
Article published by Mr. José Carlos Francisco in La Gaveta Económica in the September 2015 issue. Corporación 5 was born 25 years ago as a strategic consulting project for companies and the public sector, mainly in the Canary Islands, although not exclusively. Since 1996 and without interruption we have prepared a quarterly situation report, […]
Employment in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 11/08/15. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of October 2015 amounted to 247,162 people, with an increase of 4,849 people compared to the previous month and 18,629 people compared to October 2014. Despite the media importance […]
Widow's pensions: the coming reform
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 11/01/15. The reform of widow's and orphan's pensions (survival benefits) is emerging as one of the issues that will be on the agenda of the Toledo Pact Commission, which from the beginning of 2016 will evaluate the results of the changes incorporated […]
Minimum wage
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/25/15. The PSOE has proposed in its draft electoral program to raise the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to around 1,000 euros in two terms. This would mean going from 648 euros in 14 payments today to 1,000 euros […]
Surveys using aggregation techniques
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/18/2015. Citizens have been subjected to a bombardment of electoral polls with disparate results regarding the elections to be held in 2015, so they end up concluding that the polls are useless, which is the same as what politicians think...when […]
Employment increased, but less
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/11/15. The unemployed registered in the Canary Islands in the INEM in the month of September 2015 amounted to 242,313 people, with a decrease of 336 people compared to the previous month and 24,324 people compared to September 2014. Despite the media importance […]
Another crisis?
Article published by José Alberto León Alonso in El Día on 10/04/2015. For about two years I have been expressing my concern about the irrational growth that has been fueling the Chinese economy, creating bubbles in the financial, real estate, stock market and raw materials sectors. Liquidity tensions, stock market crashes and skyrocketing rates […]
