Instead, Portuguese workers are fleeing to booming former colonies such as Brazil and Macau.

As long as they accept elections and election results, they may be gone almost as quickly as they arrived.

And, because they may be here today but gone tomorrow, they receive little in the way of meaningful on the job training.

Even if all of the rules for finance are right, few will part with their money if they fear that an unfavorable regime change might occur during the lifetime of their investment.

Though Umar, from very first day had given orders that there would be no wailing for departed Muslims, but in this one case he made an exception.

Indeed, the British would leave just when Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine, despite Europe s current crisis, are trying to get in.

But after Koizumi left office, Japan s prime ministers Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, and Taro Aso came and went so swiftly that our country s leadership came to seem like a soup du jour.

There is a deep logic to this finding. Even if all of the rules for finance are right, few will part with their money if they fear that an unfavorable regime change might occur during the lifetime of their investment.