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Mirkin, Joaquín

Joaquín Mirkin is the Executive Director of the Safe Democracy Foundation. He is an expert in Political and Institutional Communication. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master’s in International Relations and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid, and another Master’s in Political and Institutional Communication from the Ortega and Gasset Institution of Madrid (thesis under review. For the past nine years he has worked in Journalism (with the Buenos Aires newspaper Page/12), Communication and International Relations, with an emphasis on community building. He has resided in Madrid for the past six years.

ARTICLES (3)

Success Can Also Be Latin American

Can Argentina learn from Brazil?

By Joaquín Mirkin, 15th July 2008

How does one explain that, in a world of increasingly expensive food and commodities, two agro-exporting countries replete with natural resources like Brazil and Argentina have such different economic and business outcomes?

Brazil is looking to accelerate its growth
por Marcelo Luchino
The Globalization of Brazil
por Marcelo Luchino

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Why it is necessary to increase the worldwide supply of food and to give benefits to the poor

The return of John Keynes and Thomas Malthus

By Joaquín Mirkin, 8th May 2008

The strong rise in food prices worldwide has diverse and complex causes, but the situation can be summarized in the following: the demand has risen much more than the supply. If developed nations fail to recognize this, and fail to put fresh money towards the subsidy of food for the poorest, millions of people could die of hunger. The author recommends increasing the global supply of food (through existing technology and science), subsidizing food for the poorest, and implementing free trade worldwide in agriculture.

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Spain Must Identify New Growth Waves

The cases of Israel and Ireland, globally successful clusters, as examples

By Joaquín Mirkin, 27th March 2008

Spain finds itself at a crucial moment in 2008: the era of spectacular growth that began some fifteen years ago is reaching its peak. It is now time to restructure the economy and lay the foundation for the second transition. To do this, Spain should find new ways to grow by analyzing which sectors it should develop, as a function of its strengths as a country, in accordance with international market opportunities. The author says that it is very important to open up sectors that, through clusters, add a lot of gross value, just as successful countries like Israel and Ireland did.