The time to make the leap

This is a column published in the Finance of Mexico, The Republic of Uruguay and the World Economy and Business. You can see it here in pdf

The time to make the leap

It's time to be decided. If no hesitation. Looking out the window and even though no network, clearly realizing that it's time to make the leap.

The Labor Force Survey walks slowly but inexorably towards the historic threshold of 20% unemployed. It reflects a delicate social and economic moment that translates into about 4 million already unemployed, a real tragedy for families and a huge handicap in the economic balance of a country that needs to change its economic structure and production model.

Maybe it's time to turn unemployed into entrepreneurs. For if we look at the macroeconomic figures, we see that Spain, a country of 3 million employees, has only 3.2 million self-employed. If more unemployed self-employed. A country where there are almost the same number of staff who self, is a country where something fails.

Now is the time to help a percentage of those unemployed to engage, transform some of those close to 4 million unemployed into entrepreneurs, the germ of future entrepreneurs in the years to create value and provide jobs to others. Reversing this situation is critical, not just to change the drama of everyday life for millions of families today, but to put us into a sustainable growth scenario in the future.

The key objective of this government should be born in the 70s and especially women. People aged 30-40 years, with initiative and drive to be the germ of the revolution of Spanish production model, and for this you need positive messages, incentives and encouragement in this direction, it is time to give the jump , to take risks ... and to have incentives to do so.

Undertake in Spain is not easy and the younger generation has added a handicap, lack of clear references in previous generations, mirrors that look, personal success to want to emulate. We talked of turning what was becoming known as "generation loss" a generation where the lack of entrepreneurs will be a burden for society in the very near future. That this "lost generation" is not such, is critical in this economic climate and an imperative for management to encourage them, train them and push them to jump, there's no better recipe against the crisis.

This should be obvious, unfortunately it is not so. Spain, according to Doing Business 2010 report compiled by the World Bank, and measures the ease of doing business in 168 countries, is at number 62 world ranking, being the most backward developed nation last year. The World Bank, this indicator examines four key points, (ease of starting a business, hiring, protecting investors, paying taxes), and puts our country with the ability to conduct business behind countries like Botswana, Armenia, Mexico, Peru, Samoa and Mongolia. Sad picture.

As it could not be otherwise in the top10 of the world ranking countries like USA, UK, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, Australia and Norway. This is where we need to position ourselves, and it is the duty of government to encourage the "generation loss" and transform the tragedy of the high number of unemployed an opportunity to change that expectation of the production cycle in our country.

Tags: autonomous, employees, entrepreneurs, unemployment