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  VENEZUELA, ALUMINIO E INVERSIÓN EXTRANJERA DIRECTA Es un hecho público y notorio que la Economía Venezolana ha sufrido un marcado deterioro, como se evidencia en los actuales bajos niveles de producción de insumos que otrora fueron puntales de su economía como lo son: i) la industria petrolera; y ii) el Parque Industrial de la Región Guayana, el que abarca a la industria integrada del   aluminio, el sector hierro y acero, la minería no metálica, los más importantes complejos hidroeléctricos del país, entre otros. Siendo el interés de este blog la industria del aluminio nos enfocaremos en ese caso, para lo que comenzaremos con los siguientes postulados: i) La situación de deterioro de la industria del aluminio en Venezuela es consecuencia de cómo ha sido gerenciada esta industria; ii) Como ha sido explicado en otras entregas de este blog, Venezuela posee grandes ventajas comparativas para contar con una industria eficiente y rentable en toda la cadena productiva del alumi...

VENEZUELA HAS HIGH LEVEL HUMAN RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AN EFFICIENT ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY Much has been said about Venezuela's comparative advantages in producing aluminium, which is why Venezuela has been considered an ideal site for the construction of large-scale complex aluminium producers. Due to these conditions, during the decade of the eighties, the construction of plants was projected that would raise the installed production capacity in the country to two million tons of aluminium per year. However, for various reasons this potential was not exploited, so many investments that could be made in Venezuela were carried out in places such as Canada, South Africa, and more recently in several countries in the Middle East. Regardless of past mistakes made by government institutions that prevented the establishment of a world-class bauxite-alumina-aluminium integrated industry, Venezuela still has its comparative advantages to produce aluminium competitively; therefore the AlProTeS w...

NORWAY AND ITS ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY  INVESTMENT IN VENEZUELA ??? Norway is a country that is considered one of the most notable world references in terms of the quality of life enjoyed by its inhabitants. In fact, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, which is a very good indicator of the standard of living, in 2016 was of the order of 72,000 USD, ranking it number 6 in the ranking of 196 countries in the ranking of GDP per capita.   These GDP values lead to the average salary of its inhabitants being among the highest in the world, with the average salary in the order of USD 69,000 per year. As for the Human Development Index or HDI, which is prepared by the United Nations to measure the progress of a country and which ultimately shows us the standard of living of its inhabitants, it indicates that the Norwegians are the ones with the best quality of life in the world. ¿But how this is achieved notwithstanding that an important feature of the Norwegian economy is that th...