Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity

Argentina is rich in natural capital assets and has a historically strong middle class. Nonetheless, compared to that of its peers, Argentina’s long-run economic performance has been disappointing, affecting the country’s ability to reduce poverty and increase incomes of its citizens.This report is...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696121537806645724/Argentina-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic
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spelling okr-10986-304612021-06-14T10:06:48Z Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity World Bank Group VOLATILITY SHARED PROSPERITY ECONOMIC GROWTH INEQUALITY CONVERGENCE GROWTH DRIVERS INSTITUTIONS PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MACROECONOMIC POLICY INFRASTRUCTURE OPENNESS TRADE COMPETITIVENESS POVERTY REDUCTION ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY INCLUSIVE GROWTH PRIORITIES Argentina is rich in natural capital assets and has a historically strong middle class. Nonetheless, compared to that of its peers, Argentina’s long-run economic performance has been disappointing, affecting the country’s ability to reduce poverty and increase incomes of its citizens.This report is an analysis on the medium-term agenda to ensure growth and shared prosperity in Argentina and comes at a time when the country is embarking on deepening structural reforms while dealing with recent sudden financial market pressures that emerged in April 2018. The focus of the report is on medium- to longer-term development challenges in Argentina, rather than contemporaneous macroeconomic developments. The report looks at the policies needed to Argentina to end its vicious circle of fourteen economic crisis since 1950, that the country experienced. This includes a substantial focus on macroeconomic policies to set in place the foundations for medium-term growth and shared prosperity by boosting jobs and productivity. 2018-09-27T21:26:13Z 2018-09-27T21:26:13Z 2018-09-12 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696121537806645724/Argentina-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30461 English Systematic Country Diagnostic CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Systematic Country Diagnostic Latin America & Caribbean Argentina
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topic VOLATILITY
SHARED PROSPERITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
INEQUALITY
CONVERGENCE
GROWTH DRIVERS
INSTITUTIONS
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
INFRASTRUCTURE
OPENNESS
TRADE
COMPETITIVENESS
POVERTY REDUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
PRIORITIES
spellingShingle VOLATILITY
SHARED PROSPERITY
ECONOMIC GROWTH
INEQUALITY
CONVERGENCE
GROWTH DRIVERS
INSTITUTIONS
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
MACROECONOMIC POLICY
INFRASTRUCTURE
OPENNESS
TRADE
COMPETITIVENESS
POVERTY REDUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
PRIORITIES
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Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
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description Argentina is rich in natural capital assets and has a historically strong middle class. Nonetheless, compared to that of its peers, Argentina’s long-run economic performance has been disappointing, affecting the country’s ability to reduce poverty and increase incomes of its citizens.This report is an analysis on the medium-term agenda to ensure growth and shared prosperity in Argentina and comes at a time when the country is embarking on deepening structural reforms while dealing with recent sudden financial market pressures that emerged in April 2018. The focus of the report is on medium- to longer-term development challenges in Argentina, rather than contemporaneous macroeconomic developments. The report looks at the policies needed to Argentina to end its vicious circle of fourteen economic crisis since 1950, that the country experienced. This includes a substantial focus on macroeconomic policies to set in place the foundations for medium-term growth and shared prosperity by boosting jobs and productivity.
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title Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
title_short Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
title_full Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
title_fullStr Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
title_full_unstemmed Argentina : Escaping Crises, Sustaining Growth, Sharing Prosperity
title_sort argentina : escaping crises, sustaining growth, sharing prosperity
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696121537806645724/Argentina-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic
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