Author: Albano Martins
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Trade Japan’s Satsuma Country eyeing closer business ties with Macau
Commending Macau as a key market and partner, the mayor of a city in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture has announced the area is seeking further business opportunities ... -
Animal Farm | Dreaming is a right!
The first time I visited China, I had been invited by Ma Man Kei, thirty-three years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. I ... -
Animal Farm | The economic recovery imperative
The Government has decided to launch towards the end of this economic year “8 measures to support SMEs,” to which I add, and workers. For the ... -
Animal Farm | A good project for Hengqin Island!
Macau’s economy is characterized by its high dependency and vulnerability. In the past it depended more on textiles than on the gaming. Until 2001, exports of ... -
Animal Farm | Diversification into vanity
Beauty products, make-up and skin care work their little miracles. Or to rephrase, when vanity helps this economy. Exports of goods as a contribution to GDP ... -
Animal Farm | Economy, where are you and where are you going?
1. Deflation (measured by the average change in CPI over 12 months, and which is nothing more than negative inflation) started in March this year ... -
Animal Farm | The Callow Catalogue
How is it possible that the Government of Macau produces such a biased ‘pamphlet’ for the consideration of Macau residents? A document that should be neutral, ... -
Animal Farm | Hengqin, the catalyst!
The master plan for the development of the Guangdong-Macau intensive cooperation zone in Hengqin was recently made public. These are the first steps to be taken ... -
Animal Farm | Why a slaughterhouse in Macau?
A bull or a cow fled the Matadouro (Macao slaughterhouse) a few days ago. I would also have done the same. What is the use of ... -
Animal Farm | So powerful and so poor!
Sometimes I think that there are very unusual things going on in this world, such as the wrath of Mother Nature, increasingly sour with her s.o.b. ... -
Animal Farm | Predicting our inflation is not difficult!
Predicting our inflation is the simplest thing in the world, provided you have minimal knowledge of these skills, of course. My model is simple and does ... -
Animal Farm | Hong Kong, a complex problem?
Many innocent people show little knowledge, or even contempt, for what China has done in these forty years, with many political games behind the scenes within ... -
Animal Farm | An exercise of Patriotism?
The two-year Chinese sovereign bond issue in Macau will be a good exercise to see how far patriotism will go. I hope I’m not running the ... -
Animal Farm | The challenges of Ho Iat Seng
Ten years ago I wrote “The Chui Sai On Challenges” as follows: “Continue, improve, simplify, anticipate and innovate … During these … years of activity of ... -
Animal Farm | Politics is a noble exercise!
China has in recent years gained a huge international profile, despite being a country with a single-party political system. Elsewhere, the capitalist system grew, modernized, and ... -
Animal Farm | 2019: Macao inflation will be lower!
The rate of inflation gives us a rough idea of the loss in our purchasing power. It is risky to trust these indicators too much as ... -
Animal Farm | Writing in water, again?
1. I wrote in one of the local newspapers late January that lower economic growth, as measured by GDP growth, was usually a sign that inflation ... -
Animal Farm | Creativity is lacking everywhere
The scarcity of human resources in Macau is an irrefutable fact. No one doubts this, even the most aggressive populist, those guys that always try to ... -
Animal Farm | Written in water!
1.The end of the contracts of the two Portuguese legal advisors to the Legislative Assembly came with a justification that was at the time presented by ... -
Animal Farm | Does anyone understand?
1. The non-renewal of contracts for two lawyers of the Legislative Assembly is, if nothing else, at least strange. First, because they are two well-known legal ... -
Animal Farm | Jockey Club and the eighth wonder of the world!
Mathematics teaches, as does common sense, that if a major investment of the magnitude of MOP1.5 billion is to be made in a company indebted by ... -
Animal Farm | Inflation, where are you, where should you be and where are you going!
When we talk about inflation in Macau, we enter the virtual world of estimating an indicator supposed to measure the increase in the cost of living. ... -
Animal Farm | Washing hands?
It has been announced that the Canidrome wants to send the greyhounds to China! The Macau Government’s policy seems to be as usual, following the “laissez ... -
Animal Farm | The divine rule of three!
In 2013 the Macao Government decided to set a ceiling of growth in gaming tables at three percent. Economically, for the industry and for the government ... -
Animal Farm | Certainties and methodical doubts!
1. In early April, I published my forecast of Macau’s inflation for March. The official figures were only to be released on April 20. My forecast ... -
Animal Farm | As time goes by
Nine years ago, I wrote about the election of Chui Sai On as Chief Executive in which I said that it was necessary to “continue, improve, ...
