JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

CORRUPTION WATCH

WHAT IS CORRUPTION?

Macroeconomic history

 Institutions

Economic historians such as Robert Fogel, David Landes, and Douglass North have argued that the rich world is rich today because, over the centuries, it has devised institutions that have enabled people to improve their material conditions of life. This is a deeper explanation. It says that people in rich countries work with superior technologies, are healthier, live longer, are better educated, and produce many more productive ideas, because they have been able to get on with their lives in societies whose institutions permit – even encourage – the economy-wide accumulation of such factors of production as machines, transport facilities, health, skills, ideas, and the fruits of those ideas. The accumulation of productive capital assets is only a proximate cause of prosperity, the real cause is progressive institutions.

PERSPECTIVAS - A questão migratória - HojeMacau - 22.02.2017

“Refugees are people who cannot assume protection by their own states. In many refugees crisis of the modern era, ethnicity has been one, if not the major criterion according to which people have been denied the protection of their own governments.”

Ethnic conflict and refugees

Kathleen Newland

Os anos de 2014 e 2015 caracterizaram-se por uma crescente consciencialização nos círculos políticos, meios de comunicação e na sociedade civil global da situação dos imigrantes no mundo. Os relatos de centenas de pessoas a morrer em naufrágios no Mediterrâneo; milhares de refugiados a escalar cercas de arame farpado erigidas na Hungria; milhares a viverem em acampamentos, em Calais, esperando para fugir através do Canal para o Reino Unido e navios repletos de refugiados rohingyas a serem empurrados de volta ao mar no Sudeste Asiático, publicitou sobremaneira a extensão global da crise.

Organ Donation

 About donation

Organ donation

The demand for organs massively exceeds supply.

One solution, in relation to some organs, such as kidneys, is to encourage donation by living people. That is discussed briefly above. Altruistic donation of, for instance, bone marrow or even a kidney by live donors is lawful in many jurisdictions, often, and particularly in the case of a significant sacrifice such as a kidney, after an extensive investigation by a regulatory body to check that the would-be donor is making the offer freely, and understands fully what is involved. But this obviously won’t work for hearts, lungs, and so on. If they are to be used at all, they have to be retrieved from dead bodies.

PERSPECTIVAS - A agonia da Europa - HojeMacau -13.02.2017

“Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) today is like a house that was built over decades but only partially finished. When the storm hit, its walls and roof had to be stabilised quickly. It is now high time to reinforce its foundations and turn it into what EMU was meant to be: a place of prosperity based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress. To achieve this, we will need to take further steps to complete EMU.”

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Mark Leonard,

A actual crise da União Europeia (UE) torna dolorosamente evidente que a sua história deve ser repensada, reformulada e reescrita. Está em jogo mais do que simplesmente fixar o registo do que foi realizado. Ao mesmo tempo, vasta e paroquialmente, a pesquisa existente sobre a UE não apenas define os parâmetros intelectuais actuais do seu objecto, mas fornece também a linguagem que dá forma à discussão, estabelecendo os contextos de formulação de políticas, orientação da acção política e abertura de novas fontes de legitimidade. Trata-se de um acontecimento que envolve duas causas especiais.