Posted at 2016.01.12 Category : Economist
Economistの政治経済的な立場から読むのを敬遠する人もいますが、分析力の高さ、まとめの素晴らしさは群を抜いているのでEconomistを読むことは大変勉強になります。今週は不案内なサウジと中東についてまとめ記事を出していました。
Economistはサウジのタカ派的な外交政策と国内の経済改革について厳しい目を向けています。日本でもニュースになった石油会社アラムコの上場にしても経済改革をしているポーズに使われるだけではないかと懐疑的です。
Saudi Arabia
The Saudi blueprint
The desert kingdom is striving to dominate its region and modernise its economy at the same time
Jan 9th 2016
The government plans to do this by getting the state out of all but its essential functions. From health and education to state-owned companies, the new Saudi leadership is looking for privatisation and the private provision of public services. It has plans for charter schools and an insurance-based, privately provided health-care system. It is looking at the complete or partial privatisation of more than two dozen agencies and state-owned companies, including the national airline, telecoms firm and power generator. The biggest fish of all is Aramco, a national icon and almost certainly the world’s most valuable firm. The prince favours floating a minority stake in Aramco and opening its books to the world. He is urging his team to come up with a plan within months (see article).
Could such a blueprint become reality? Words are cheap and the obstacles huge. Saudi Arabia has promised reform before, only for its efforts to fizzle into insignificance. Its capital markets are thin and the capacity of its bureaucracy thinner. The investment that it needs in its young people, its non-oil industries, its tourism infrastructure and much else will not come cheap. It will not happen unless investors believe in the country’s future. That confidence will be hard to build.
経済改革を成し遂げるには投資を呼び込まなくてはいけませんが、紛争地区や国内改革の遅れたところに投資をするのはためらわれるでしょう。そんな当たり前の点も指摘しています。
The new regime seems to regard boldness at home and abroad as signs of a strong Saudi Arabia. Yet, though a muscular foreign policy plays well among Saudis, the economy will not thrive if the royal family ends up inflaming its region and blocking social reform at home. If Prince Muhammad is to remake his country, not wreck it, he needs to understand that.
分析記事についてはこれから読もうと思います（汗）アラブの春の5年後のまとめ記事もチャートにしたり抜群に分かりやすくなっています。
Saudi Arabia
Young prince in a hurry
Muhammad bin Salman gambles on intervention abroad and radical economic change at home. But forget about democracy
Jan 9th 2016 | DIRIYA | From the print edition
Politics in the Middle East
The Arab winter
Five years after a wave of uprisings, the Arab world is worse off than ever. But its people understand their predicament better
Jan 9th 2016 | CAIRO | From the print edition
今回の外交政策や経済改革を主導していると言われるサウジの皇子にインタビューしているのですが、最後のコメントが興味深かったです。表現の自由を抑えている国とは思えないですね（苦笑）
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Transcript: Interview with Muhammad bin Salman
The Economist meets Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, the man who wields power behind the throne of his father, King Salman
Jan 6th 2016 | DIRIYA | Middle East and Africa
Your Royal Highness, thank you very much.
Thank you. I’m very glad to have you here today, I’m happy to receive these questions. We always take criticism from our friends. If we are wrong, we need to hear that we are wrong. But if we are not wrong, we need to hear support from our friends. What I request is that the thing you actually believe, to say it.
We always do. Thank you.
最後のEconomistのWe always do.は新新TOEICの文脈問題で出題したくなります（笑）
Economistはサウジのタカ派的な外交政策と国内の経済改革について厳しい目を向けています。日本でもニュースになった石油会社アラムコの上場にしても経済改革をしているポーズに使われるだけではないかと懐疑的です。
Saudi Arabia
The Saudi blueprint
The desert kingdom is striving to dominate its region and modernise its economy at the same time
Jan 9th 2016
The government plans to do this by getting the state out of all but its essential functions. From health and education to state-owned companies, the new Saudi leadership is looking for privatisation and the private provision of public services. It has plans for charter schools and an insurance-based, privately provided health-care system. It is looking at the complete or partial privatisation of more than two dozen agencies and state-owned companies, including the national airline, telecoms firm and power generator. The biggest fish of all is Aramco, a national icon and almost certainly the world’s most valuable firm. The prince favours floating a minority stake in Aramco and opening its books to the world. He is urging his team to come up with a plan within months (see article).
Could such a blueprint become reality? Words are cheap and the obstacles huge. Saudi Arabia has promised reform before, only for its efforts to fizzle into insignificance. Its capital markets are thin and the capacity of its bureaucracy thinner. The investment that it needs in its young people, its non-oil industries, its tourism infrastructure and much else will not come cheap. It will not happen unless investors believe in the country’s future. That confidence will be hard to build.
経済改革を成し遂げるには投資を呼び込まなくてはいけませんが、紛争地区や国内改革の遅れたところに投資をするのはためらわれるでしょう。そんな当たり前の点も指摘しています。
The new regime seems to regard boldness at home and abroad as signs of a strong Saudi Arabia. Yet, though a muscular foreign policy plays well among Saudis, the economy will not thrive if the royal family ends up inflaming its region and blocking social reform at home. If Prince Muhammad is to remake his country, not wreck it, he needs to understand that.
分析記事についてはこれから読もうと思います（汗）アラブの春の5年後のまとめ記事もチャートにしたり抜群に分かりやすくなっています。
Saudi Arabia
Young prince in a hurry
Muhammad bin Salman gambles on intervention abroad and radical economic change at home. But forget about democracy
Jan 9th 2016 | DIRIYA | From the print edition
Politics in the Middle East
The Arab winter
Five years after a wave of uprisings, the Arab world is worse off than ever. But its people understand their predicament better
Jan 9th 2016 | CAIRO | From the print edition
今回の外交政策や経済改革を主導していると言われるサウジの皇子にインタビューしているのですが、最後のコメントが興味深かったです。表現の自由を抑えている国とは思えないですね（苦笑）
Q&A
All latest updates
Transcript: Interview with Muhammad bin Salman
The Economist meets Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, the man who wields power behind the throne of his father, King Salman
Jan 6th 2016 | DIRIYA | Middle East and Africa
Your Royal Highness, thank you very much.
Thank you. I’m very glad to have you here today, I’m happy to receive these questions. We always take criticism from our friends. If we are wrong, we need to hear that we are wrong. But if we are not wrong, we need to hear support from our friends. What I request is that the thing you actually believe, to say it.
We always do. Thank you.
最後のEconomistのWe always do.は新新TOEICの文脈問題で出題したくなります（笑）
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