A day before the referendum: Was it the richest country in the world independent Scotland? (D.M) According to financial analyst Dominic Frisby, if Scotland chooses independence, it will become the worlds richest country. As told Bloomberg, Edinburgh has all the keys to a perfect index of GDP per capita by purchasing power parity, starting with its small population and concluding with important oil resources factors. population There is a direct correlation between the size of a state and the financial well being of its citizens: the larger it is the first, the smaller is the last, says Frisby. In the various lists of the worlds wealthiest countries by per capita compiled by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund countries like Qatar, Luxembourg, Norway and sometimes also Switzerland, Singapore and Denmark usually take turns in positions of honor GDP . All these states have a common feature: a small population, highlights the analyst, though without mentioning the fact that America and Australia also usually end up ranked among the ten richest nations despite its population. If achieved independence, Scotland, with its 5.3 million citizens, have to survive on less taxes, limiting the size of the institutions and bodies of the new state, says Frisby. The control of public action will be most effective, there will be more transparency and less losses justified. With fewer people, the gap between rich and poor will be smaller and will be easier to implement changes that will create a flexible, dynamic and competitive nation. petrogasíferos resources Scotland is the largest oil producer in the EU. An independent time, you get control over the reserves within its borders. According to figures shuffles nationalist leader and first minister of Scotland since 2007, Alexander Salmond, who at the time worked as a petroleum economist, the new state will enjoy 54.000 million pounds (88.000 million) in taxes from the exploitation of North Sea fields in six years. Based on the work of Alex Kemp, University of Aberdeen, Salmond estimated unproved reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea could reach 24.000 million barrels, representing a potential value up to 1.5 billion pounds ($ 2.4 billion) in 40 years. For a country of 5.3 inhabitants the figure is not trivial. industry Scotland produces iron, zinc and a certain amount of carbon. The waters surrounding the area are one of the richest in Europe for fishing. Scotland is also equipped with an energy resource prominent European level is a successful exporter of electricity, thanks to both its nuclear power plants, wind farms and projects olamotriz and tidal power. Moreover, the whiskey industry brings more than 4.250 billion pounds (6.930 billion) to the UK budget. Edinburgh is currently the fourteenth largest financial center in Europe. According to Frisby, the status of capital of an independent state and the possibility of implementing a own monetary policies would reinforce the new sovereign Scotland. High-tech Today the prosperity of a society depends heavily on technological advances that is capable of generating. Looking back at the talent that Scotland generated throughout its history in engineering, finance and physics, among other fields, there is no doubt that in the XXI century can still be the same. Scottish Notable personalities of the past include: James Watt, engineer whose work led to the steam water and in whose honor was named the power unit watt; Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; Alexander Bain, creator of the fax and the electric clock; James Bowman Lindsay, inventor of the electric light bulbs constants; Thomas Lipton, the founder of Tea Liptons; James Braid, the father of hypnosis techniques; Alexander Fleming, author of penicillin; Adam Smith, pioneer of political economy; Bertie Charles Forbes, founder of Forbes Magazine; William Paterson, founder of the Bank of Scotland and the Bank of England; John Law, founder of Banque Générale of France, among others. Today, Scotland has the Silicon Glen, an industrial high-tech center covering the central belt of Scotland (or Central Belt), the triangle bounded by Dundee, Inverclyde and Edinburgh, which includes the counties of Fife, Glasgow , and Stirling. Technology companies in the Silicon Glen produce 28% of all computers in Europe, 29% of the laptops of the continent and more than 7% of the worlds computers.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:51:12 +0000