CESA The report argues that Aragon could leave before the crisis thanks to the diversification of its productive fabric.
The report of the Economic and Social Council of Aragon (CESA) for the year 2009 concluded that this exercise has been negative for the economy of Aragon, while there are positive aspects of data and point to a recovery beginning in 2010 and that this community could check out of the crisis than other areas, mainly through the diversification of its productive, darkfall gold, fabric.
This is one of the main findings of the Annual Report on economic and social situation of the Community of Aragon in the year 2009 that this Wednesday has presented the Economic and Social Council of Aragon in the context of a Conference held in the autonomous parliament.
The chairman of the Commission of Economy CES Aragon, Marcos Sanso, ffxiv gil, has been commissioned to publicize the annual report which shows that the Community of Aragon ended the year 2009 with a major setback in their level of activity and a significant rise in unemployment. However, the trade balance Aragon has obtained a surplus throughout this year the trend is down much more in imports than exports.
Another positive aspect of this report is that, as, sto credits, regards the unemployment rate, the Community of Aragon conserved, with 12.8 percent, a differential of more than five points below the Spanish average, achieving one of the best records around the country. It also specifies that the profile of the production shows, both from the point of view of supply and demand, an improvement and a less unfavorable than the Spanish average.
By sector, the biggest stars in industry employment fall of 16.6 percent, followed by construction with 12.2 percent, the agricultural sector with 2.3 percent and services 1.9 percent . In this sector, has been the fifth Aragon Autonomous Community has shown that smaller cuts in turnover by 12.5 percent.
On the other hand, the GDP of the Community in 2009 suffered a decrease of 4 per cent, four tenths more than the Spanish average and far below the 1.2 percent growth the previous year. According to the report, the decline of the Aragonese economy has been conditioned by three factors: the absence of extraordinary activity associated with the Expo 2008, the specialization on the industry, concentrated in the automotive sector and its greater openness to foreign why it is more vulnerable to global cycles.
Quality of life
The crisis situation has not prevented major quality of life indicators have been positive, according to the report, "with higher levels of welfare for the whole of the citizenry." Among these indicators, points out that Aragon was in 2009 the community with low incidence rates of occupational accidents with low working hours (35.9), 6.4 points below the national average. The budget allocated to employment promotion programs amounted to almost 41.9 million euros.
In early 2009, Aragon had a total of 1,345,473 inhabitants, 1.4 percent more than the previous year and 12.1 percent more than in 2001. For the eleventh consecutive year the population has increased, strengthening the favorable demographic trend that began in the late twentieth century.
As regards education, grew the number of students enrolled in both general educationNon-university (202 827) and the University of Zaragoza (30 792). In Health, comprehensive health coverage was published and received a positive rating by users, calling the 91.3 percent of the population as good or very good.
In the area of Environment, stressed that the 53 companies that have enjoyed Aragonese CO2 emission rights, have declined by 24.8 percent their emissions to the atmosphere.
In 2009, in Aragon there were 278 000 recipients of contributory pensions, 60 534 recipients of unemployment benefit recipients and 16 571 non-contributory benefits and financial assistance from the IASS.
The Report of the CESA believes that "the Aragonese economy has shown in the whole of 2009 an adjustment, in terms of economic growth, more intense than the national average but, in contrast, detailed analysis of their evolution has pointed to quarterly an earliest start of the crisis. "
The commitment to the diversification of the Aragonese, the endowment of human capital is more qualified than the average for Spain and efforts in the field of R + D + i are some aspects that are being decisive in setting the economy Aragon
According to the document, "is expected to continue in 2010 and start setting the recovery of the economy of Aragon, with a performance slightly ahead for the Spanish average, thanks in part to the commitment to diversifying its production base, which is being on the behavior of Aragon before the crisis. "
Indeed, the topical chapters of the report is focused on this occasion the challenge of economic diversification of the Autonomous Community. Faced with the generally accepted assertion of "high dependence of the economy of the Aragonese automotive industry and its ancillary industries," points to the fact that this economy is the second most diverse of the autonomous communities.
"What is tested in this monograph is that Aragon is no problem of dependence on one sector. The report shows that the sectors where there is more concentration on the generation of gross value added are Construction, Real Estate and Business Services, Trade and repair, catering and administration published. Not in any time or automotive or ancillary services, "stated the president of the Economics Commission of Aragon CES.
The seeming contradiction is that is normally considered the turnover and foreign trade, for example. Alli if the concentration of the automotive sector is greatest. In the report, but that diversity policies are pointing the desirability of internationalization policies that strengthen truly competitive sectors.