Showing posts with label qatar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label qatar. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2016

Goldman Sachs - Draghi - ECB - Merkel - The Economist

"Draghi was then vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International and a member of the firm-wide management committee (2002–2005).

A few days later
[2011] The Economist [owned by the Cadbury, Rothschild, Schroder, Agnelli and other families] wrote that "the next president of the world’s second-most-important central bank should be Mario Draghi". On 20 April 2011 The Wall Street Journal reported that "Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's finance minister [of Angela Merkel's government], is open to Mr. Draghi for the post of ECB President". A few days later the German newspaper Bild endorsed Draghi by defining him the "most German of all remaining candidates". Contrary to previous reports about France's position, on 25 April it was reported that President Nicolas Sarkozy saw Draghi as a full-fledged and an adequate candidate for the job.

On 17 May 2011 the Council of the European Union – sitting as Ecofin – adopted a recommendation on the nomination of Draghi as President of the ECB. He was approved by the European Parliament and the ECB itself and on 24 June 2011 his appointment was confirmed by the European leaders.

Draghi is a trustee at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and also at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C.
" [Wikipedia]


About the Brookings Institution...

"The Brookings Institution is an American think tank based on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., USA. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development. In the University of Pennsylvania's 2014 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, Brookings is ranked the most influential think tank in the world.

Its stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system"

Along with the Council on Foreign Relations and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings is generally considered one of the most influential policy institutes in the U.S.

As of 2014 the Brookings Institution had assets of $496 million. Its largest contributors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Hutchins Family Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David Rubenstein, State of Qatar, and John L. Thornton.

The Qatari government was named by The New York Times as "the single biggest foreign donor to Brookings"
" [Wikipedia]

Friday, June 1, 2012

Esclavos en Qatar

"Éste es el caso de Raghu Kabir, un expatriado nepalí que aterrizó en la región hace siete años y cuyos ingresos mensuales se limitan a los 900 riales (algo menos de 200 euros) por una jornada laboral que se prolonga desde las siete de la mañana hasta el anochecer. «En mi país no hay futuro. Aquí el trabajo —esté bien o mal pagado— sobra en todas partes», asegura a ABC este joven que roza la treintena.

Su situación no es insólita. A pesar de constituir el 99 por ciento de la fuerza laboral en el sector privado (más de 500.000 almas, solo en la construcción), los trabajadores inmigrantes que viajan a Qatar sufren serios recortes en sus derechos laborales, como la imposibilidad de asociarse en sindicatos u organizar huelgas.

Un ejemplo evidente de este abuso es la «kafala», que vincula la residencia legal de un trabajador extranjero a su empleador o «patrocinador», lo que impiden que éstos puedan cambiar de trabajo sin el consentimiento de su capataz. O incluso, abandonar el país.

(...)

Mientras que en el último año el Gobierno de Doha ha bombardeado los hogares de Oriente Próximo con las imágenes de las revueltas en Túnez, Egipto, Libia, Yemen y Siria (Hamad bin Thamer, presidente de la emisora televisiva Al Yasira, es familiar directo del jeque qatarí), el poder absoluto de la dinastía Al Thani se extiende desde hace casi 200 años. Y pese a la total ausencia de partidos políticos, nadie rechista."
[Qatar, lujo sin democracia]