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More than half of the inhabitants of the City of Buenos Aires and its suburbs think your personal financial situation and the country are equally good or better than last year. They also noted that, although concerned about inflation, they prefer that the national economy continue to grow.

This was revealed by a survey of 1000 respondents by the consultant Barometry on the perception of the situation held monthly in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires and 24 districts of Greater Buenos Aires) on 25 January.

This research showed that although there is concern about rising prices, 54% prefer to keep the economy growing, even at risk of further inflation. In contrast, 26% prioritize the brakes on inflation, even at the risk of economic growth.

In total, 51% consider their personal situation is better than last year, as opposed to 45.2% believed that remained unchanged or worsened. In turn, 51.4% thought that the economic situation improved from the previous year, against a 43.8% that the economy is “as bad or worse” for one year.

It also found that among political leaders, according to the respondents; better solve the inflation problem, Cristina Fernandez ranks first with 35.6%. Second, respondents point to the former President Eduardo Dialed to 12%, followed by the head of government of Buenos Aires Mauricio Marci with 8.4% and the Vice President Julio Combos to 7.4%.
While not speaking in the polls, the difference of more than 20 points between the president and former interim president is notorious, and even throws overboard the aspirations of the Senate incumbent to compete in an eventual second round of elections General October 24.

On the other hand, in relation to new demands for rural entrepreneurs, the survey revealed that 53% or more than half of respondents described him as an eminently political dispute, while for the 29% is a protest against a legitimate claim. 40% also thought that the Agricultural Liaison Committee is the actor who could get more hurt in this conflict, and only 21% believe it would further hurt the national government. Gone are sympathetic to the employers of the field in 2008 focused the attention of key opposition leaders during the conflict over the withholding of agricultural commodities. The endless demands of the leaders of the Liaison Bureau lost the legitimacy that led to the 2008 election to fill several seats in Congress, with reference to the public who gave them the dispute over profits from soybeans.

A positive part of the tax reform proposal by Senators of the PRI is raised to lower the rate of VAT to 12 percent, because lower rates, fewer distortions in the economy, said the senior economist for Mexico World Bank (WB), Joust Dadaism.

However, he said, the tricky part would be to broaden the tax base, possibly to include food and medicine, which are now exempt or zero rate, “and that might have some regressive impact on income distribution in Mexico” .

In his view, any tax proposal that in Mexico this approach should be to increase revenue, as our country “does not collect a large percentage of its GDP through taxes.”

Moreover, in recent years the level of oil production in the country, which represents an important part of public-sector income has fallen more than 25 percent and the risk of diminishing a bit more, so that have to start replacing oil revenues by tax revenue.

Referring to the proposal of Senators of the Parted Revolutionaries Institutional (PRI), said a positive part is that it needs to reduce the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) to 12 percent.

“Within the proposal was referred to a supporting part to lower rates is that fewer distortions in the economy, obviously also offset by expanding the base, and we think this is a positive part of the proposal,” he said.

As part of a press conference of the World Bank Country Director for Mexico and Colombia, Gloria Gadolinium, Dadaism said the hardest part of this proposal is to do that effectively raise more or not.

The Chinese vice Premier Li Keying, likely next head of government of China could gain influence in Germany in the short term. During a visit to Berlin, Li agreed with Merkel business some 8,700 million euros.

When Li Keying, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, said his country was interested in opening up further towards the German business, was not exaggerating: the Chinese ambassador in Berlin, Wu Hong, said Friday January 7, 2011 that during Li’s visit to the capital germane, Germany and China signed commercial agreements for joint investments with a total value of 8,700 million euros.

The largest projects are the program of the Volkswagen for the supply of materials; the cost revolves around the 2,600 million euros, and a draft Daimler-Benz Company valued at 2,200 million euros. Other contracts include the modernization of a nuclear power plant in China and the sale of three ships.

A first approach

After meeting Friday with the Federal President of Germany, Christian Wolff, and the Chinese vice-premier attended his meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, who described the meeting with Li as “a very thorough and friendly conversation on Sino-German, from economic cooperation to human rights.”

Another topic discussed by Merkel and Li was the first exchange of the impending state between Germany and China. Government representative Germany, Steffen Seibert, said the meeting with Li is a first approach. Analysts give importance to this meeting because the politician of 55 years is seen as the future head of government of China.