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Sunday 7 February 2010

Salon des entrepreneurs, february 2010, Paris

Salon des Entrepreneurs

France is changing... Last year, thanks to the creation of the auto-entrepreneur status, the number of setting-up companies hit the record level of 580 193. That means a 75,1% increase compared with 2008. Since january 1st 2009, doing business has never been so easy and affordable in France. Consequently, all the spotlights were focused on this new category of businessmen and businesswomen during the 17th edition of the «Salon des Entrepreneurs» in Paris, which I attended on Februrary 3th and 4th.

As François Hurel (President of the Union des Auto-Entrepreneurs) claimed, it is possible to create an «auto-entreprise» in just 10 min on the website : www.lautoentrepreneur.fr. According to a poll from Opinionway, the most attractive disposals of this new status are the freedom feeling, the simplification of the administrative process and the fact that is not necessary to pay any taxes if the turnover is under or equal to zero.

During his speech, Hervé Novelli, secretary of state in charge of SMEs (Small and medium enterprises), was very pleased that this entrepreneurship freedom is the Key factor of this success story. In a country where people use to get bogged down in paperwork for any initiatives they want to take, and where so many people envy public servants benefits, this successful initiative is a real (positive) cultural revolution.

Sunday 6 September 2009

Journée Outre-Mer Développement - 5/09/09

JOMD

Ce samedi 5 septembre 2009 le parc de la Villette à Paris a accueilli la première édition de la journée Outre-Mer Développement (JOMD), sous le haut patronage du Secrétaire d’État à l’Outre-mer. Soutenue par les Medef de Guadeloupe, de Guyane et de Martinique, la JOMD était organisée par un collectif réunissant le Groupe Citadelle, l’agence Multiculturelle, Lagencedecom’ et Maditerra. Cette ambitieuse initiative a rencontré un franc succès tant du point de vue de la qualité des interventions, que de l’affluence qu’elle a suscitée.

L’objectif de cette journée Outre-Mer Développement consistait à mettre en relation la diaspora antillo-guyanaise et «ceux qui font bouger la Caraïbe» (intellectuels, hommes politiques, leaders économiques, investisseurs, personnalités publiques) pour échanger sur les problématiques de développement de nos territoires. La JOMD répondait également à un autre objectif : permettre aux actifs et aux jeunes diplômés originaires de l’outre-mer, candidats au retour, de trouver des opportunités professionnelles sur le marché local. La Journée s’articulait autour de trois pôles : les ateliers au nombre de quatre (Travailler aux Antilles-Guyane, La diaspora marché ou relais, Les entrepreneurs antillo-guyanais à la conquête de l'international, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane : concurrents ou convergents), les séances plénières ponctuées par deux débats passionnants (L’Histoire aux Antilles-Guyane est-elle un obstacle à surmonter ou un atout à valoriser? Quel modèle de développement possible pour les Antilles-Guyane françaises?) et un «business corner» où il était possible pour les jeunes diplômés ultramarins de rencontrer des recruteurs, des investisseurs ou des associations étudiantes.

Des sociétés emblématiques tels que le groupe Bernard Hayot, Librairie Antillaise, Mediaserv, Leader Price Martinique, Joseph Cottrell, ou l'hôtel Karibea avaient fait le déplacement et comptaient parmi les principaux partenaires de la manifestation. Les secteurs de la distribution et de l’agro-alimentaire étaient d’ailleurs particulièrement représentés. À noter également, le soutien du groupement d’entreprises des français d’outre-mer (GEDFOM), l’Outremer Network, et l’HORIDOM, pour ne citer que ceux là. Près de 600 visiteurs s’étaient donnés rendez-vous pour participer à cette première JOMD.

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Monday 10 December 2007

The "Bank of the South" America is born

Banco del Sur

The IMF and World Bank never were really popular in the developing countries. Mainly because they were considered rightly or wrongly like imperialist institutions working for the interests of the USA. So it was predictible that one day, some countries will be fed up of the world leadership of this financial institutions. What some were dreaming about, Hugo Chavez and six others South-American countries done it ; create their own regional and independant financial institution to sustain and finance their own grothw and social development. Indeed, this Sunday december 9th in Buenos Aires (Argentina), « the leaders of these seven South American nations launched a regional development bank » with the ambitious goal to create one regional currency as European union managed to do it.

For its creation, the Banco del Sur, or Bank of the South is expected to get at least $7 billion in startup capital. It will provide Latin American countries « loans with fewer strings attached than those given by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund or the Inter-American Development Bank ». This agreement constitutes clearly a strong sign of unity and prove that the South American countries have understood that they have to organize together their mutual developement, to be stronger and more independant.

I really hope this brave and positive initiative will manage to reach theirs goals, because south American like African people need to find a way to boost their development and it's a good thing they take their destiny into their own hands by this way.

South American Countries Agree to Found Banco Del Sur

Sept pays latino-américains lancent officiellement la Banque du Sud

Chavez, allies create South America bank

Thursday 22 November 2007

Globalization is not definitively bad!

Global Solidarity


The following article is taken from one essay about free-trade & globalization I recently wrote :

Human beings always used to trade, travel and communicate with one another. Contrary to what the average citizen thinks, globalization is not a current phenomenon. Indeed it is a very old trend as Marco Polo's travels througout the Orient can prove, for example.

If we had to define globalization in a few words, we could define it as a “worlwide integration of economic, cultural, political, religious and social systems”. Obviously, globalization is an irresistible trend which cannot be stopped, mainly because our “national” economies depend on each other. That is the reason why when the US economy is not going well, the other developed and developing countries to an extent also suffer. In fact, globalization has so many aspects ; some are really positive. and others are strongly criticised. So is globalization good or bad?

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