A Dollar for Argentina
Wall Street Journal - Argentina is back in the soup, as it so often is. The prospect that Peronists might retake power has Argentines fleeing the peso for dollars, and on Monday t ...
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Should Argentina Dollarize Now?
AIER - With the annual inflation rate currently at 55 percent, some economists have recommended that Argentina abandon the peso in favor of the dollar. John Cochrane, Steve Hanke, ...
Read More »Argentina: The Third Least Competitive Country in the World
Argentine unions have implemented a national strike again: the sixth in three years during President Mauricio Macri's tenure. Panampost - There are two news stories in Argentina t ...
Read More »Lost decade spectre haunts Latin America as big economies falter
BA Times - Latin America – hit by simultaneous contractions in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico – has expanded only 0.7% a year on average during the past few years – barely enough to ...
Read More »Why should we care about the speed of circulation of money
The bid between the exchange rate and the level of interest rates characterizes the current monetary and exchange rate policy. Any attempt to reduce the rate finds an audience tha ...
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Institutional Quality Index 2019
After 2018 with an improvement of 19 places, in 2019 the country improved 7 places; Between 2017 and 2019 it went from position 142 to 112; populism hinders the progress in the re ...
Read More »Roberto Lavagna: I would honour deal with IMF – but renegotiate it
Former economy minister, who has yet to confirm he will definitely run for the presidency in October, clarifies position in meeting with foreign press in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aire ...
Read More »Digital lenders lure unbanked Argentines out of shadow economy
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - María Rosales, 39, is one of millions of less affluent Argentines locked out of the traditional financial sector. The former cruise ship worker lost her j ...
Read More »OECD calls on Argentina to deepen ‘ambitious economic reforms’
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called on Argentina to deepen its economic and structural reforms, warning President Mauricio Macri that the n ...
Read More »Libertad y Progreso Case Study: Rightsizing an Outsized Argentinian Government
Atlas Network - Ending the public’s love affair with the state by exposing corruption and waste in Argentina’s federal government How a free-market think tank challenged a long-st ...
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