The argentine recovery: some features and challenges

mercado, p. ruben (2007): The argentine recovery: some features and challenges.

Abstract

In this paper I review the main features of the Argentine economic recovery that took place after the 2001/2002 crisis. I analyze that recovery along several dimensions: growth, fiscal and export performance, debt, international reserves, unemployment and poverty. I also review the 1990s economic policies and events that led to the crisis and the main theoretical explanations put forward to explain it. Finally, I discuss some of the main micro, meso and macro challenges ahead.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: argentina, argentine economic crisis, argentine reconomic ecovery
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E65 - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes; N - Economic History > N9 - Regional and Urban History > N96 - Latin America ; Caribbean

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