Christian Nouel: "Entrepreneurs also on the front line facing the crisis"

4/14/2020, 5:55:48 PM

TRIBUNE - The deindustrialization that has been unanimously deplored for a few weeks is the fruit of forty years of political choices unfavorable to the private sector, argues the president of the Responsible Growth Foundation.

In these times of unprecedented crisis, many observers predict that "nothing will be the same as before" and that we must seize this opportunity to "put the whole system flat". It is true that this will be an opportunity to make some diagnoses and apply some therapies, but it will also be to see, once is not customary, that we live in complex worlds where battles against hunger, thirst and disease have been won in many parts of the world and that the world's population has tripled in fifty years, adding a little more complexity to the systems in which we live.

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In this context, we have never needed more enlightened leaders in all spheres of activity, political, cultural, scientific, medical and economic. Globalization is an endless spiral of improvement through growth, research, innovation, commitment, but we often limit ourselves to seeing only its deleterious aspects, which are too much puncture.