Type | Journal Article - REBELA-Revista Brasileira de Estudos Latino-Americanos |
Title | Uruguay 2015: la opcion por el ajuste |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 3 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2017 |
URL | https://rebela.emnuvens.com.br/pc/article/viewFile/285/676 |
Abstract | In 2014 were reached levels without preceding of the GDP, of the private investment and of the foreign direct investment (FDI), of the number of people occupied in jobs without restrictions, of the real wage and of the pensions; the number of people poor and unemployed were reduced. In 2015 began the reversion of these trends and it is applying an adjustment policy characterized by the contraction of the internal demand with an stable private consumption and deep fall of the public investment, the use of public tariffs for increase the public income, the real wages almost frozen, the loss of capacity of buy of the pensions, the reduction of the number of people working and the stabilization of the number of people poor. Increased the income of the local and foreign capital in form of interests of debt and profits of foreign investment, and also the banking deposits of residents abroad. In a context of falling extern demand policy was not proposed to compensate it with an increase in domestic demand, which could be achieved with higher taxes on capital and profits, wages and public investment increases. |
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