In the 15 years preceding President Mauricio Macri’s election in 2015, Argentina progressively distanced itself from global supply chains through the implementation of protectionist measures aimed at aligning economic policies with the government’s political agenda.
Argentina’s historic issuance of $16.5bn worth of bonds in April 2016 marked the country’s return to the international capital markets after effectively being barred for 15 years. Argentina has had a troubling history in global markets, having defaulted on its sovereign debt eight times since 1816, the most significant being the 2001 default on more than $80bn.
How does Argentina’s current monetary policy impact the performance of the banking sector?
Under President Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s foreign policy has undergone a fundamental turnaround. Following years of left-populist politics under Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who allied with other regional populist governments and often clashed with global powers such as the US and the UK, President Macri has since...
How is Argentina’s hosting of the G20 conference in 2018 expected to affect the local business climate?
Among the most important tasks for Latin America and the Caribbean is to achieve greater growth rates, and a fundamental part of this is investing in infrastructure. The most viable way to accomplish this investment is a significant increase in the number of public-private partnerships (PPPs), and this can only be happen if corruption is eradicated from public contracting....
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