Argentina’s inflation third highest in the world, say private consultants
Private consultants estimate that Argentina’s inflation in 2009 and in spite of the devalued government statistics was the third highest in the world behind the Democratic Republic of Congo and Venezuela.
According to the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner inflation in Argentina last year was below 8% taking into consideration that the accumulated in the first eleven months of 2009 was 6.7%.
However independent economists, business organizations, consultants, consumer groupings and even trade unions indicate that “real, non cosmetic” inflation in 2009 ranged between 15% and 18%.
Thus according to private consultants in Buenos Aires and some provincial governments which have their own statistics offices, Argentina ranks third in the IMF inflation list which has Congo with 31.2% at the top followed by President Hugo Chavez Venezuela with 28%.
Mariano Lamothe, an economist from consultants Abeceb, estimates inflation in 2009 reached between 14% and 15%. Consultants Joaquín Ledesma & Associados argue “real” inflation accumulated in the eleven months of 2009 was 14.3% and Ecolatina, founded by former Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna considers that the average inflation in Argentina between 2005 and 2009 was 17.8%.
Ecolatina anticipates that the recovery of economic activity in Argentina during this year is going “to accelerate inflation even more” and adds that “without an official plan it’s going to be very difficult to contain the increase in prices”.
Ecolatina argues that following several years of strong rates “the inflationary dynamics has its own inertia which makes it into a chronic problem”.
For 2010 the administration of Mrs. Kirchner estimates inflation at 6.1%, however Ecolatina anticipates it will be closer to 17%. Economist Carlos Melconián forecasts between 18% and 20% while Credit Suisse in a recent report anticipates “real” inflation in Argentina will be in the range of 12% to 14%. Barclays Capital has told its investors Argentine inflation in 2010 can be expected to be in the range of 16.5%.
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You should watch your health care system ROFL.
We don't care what happens in your sh**ty country. Was I clear?
P.S. Please ben laden, do something! this time in Miami LOL
In many aspect i dont like in absolut the k administration, specially what they did with the stadistics, i never take into account the i.n.d.e.c, i always read private stadistics.
On the other hand i must recognize too like me or not, all the great progress that we had since 2003 in plenty of aspects, of course there is still so much to do, we have a 33% of poor people, not the 15% like the goverment says, and we all know that we have also very serious problems since a lot of time ego.
To finish my comentary, i would like to say that, some people should make a self critic about what happened in their own nation, before criticising and making fun at our problems, some soposed economist are so good may be predicting the destiny of our country, however they could not even predict their own crisis, specially the ex prosperous u.s.a.
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