Argentina

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  
Argentine industrial activity dropped 6.4% in August and 8.1% so far this year

  

  Industrial activity in Argentina dropped 6.4% during August compared to a year ago and 2.8% over last July, totalling a slide of 8.1% so far this year, according to the official stats office, Indec.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine fisheries coastal research vessel, “Mar Argentino” launched in Galicia

  

  The Argentine coastal fisheries research vessel BIP “Mar Argentino” (Argentine Sea), was launched this week in Vigo, Spain and should be ready to sail and operate by next March. She will join the renovated fleet of research vessels from the country's Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, in Mar del Plata.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  British/Argentina AMR research partnership programs with £5 million of UK aid

  

  The UK government has provided £5 million of aid as part of an Argentine program to manage antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in agriculture and its impact on the environment. The funding will go to five research partnerships between the UK and Argentina.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Developing nations foreign debt reaches US$ 7.8 trillion, World Bank report

  

  Total foreign debt held by developing nations jumped more than 5% to US$7.8 trillion, driven by a surge in Chinese debt, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  The IMF after Argentina

  

  By Kenneth Rogoff (*) - It’s high time to ask how to refocus the International Monetary Fund’s mandate for dealing with emerging-market debt crises. How can the IMF be effective in helping countries regain access to private credit markets when any attempt to close unsustainable budget deficits is labeled austerity?

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  INIDEP launches “Marine and Fisheries Sciences” publication in English and Spanish

  

  The Argentine Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, based in Mar del Plata has re-launched a historic scientific magazine, now re-baptized “Marine and Fisheries Sciences” with the purpose of circulating the work and papers from the institute.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Some 15.8 million Argentines living in poverty according to the latest data

  

  Poverty in Argentina rose to 35.4% of the population in the first half of the year, the highest officially recorded level since 2001, the INDEC national statistics bureau reported today. This means that some 15.8 million Argentines are now considered poor, INDEC's data indicates. At the end of 2018, 32% of Argentines were said to be living in poverty.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's recurring nightmare

  

  By Andrés Bello (*) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri seems almost certain to lose his country’s presidential election next month, after committing the same kinds of economic policy mistakes that so many of his Peronist predecessors made. It is a tragic and catastrophically disappointing denouement.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Macri launches his presidential campaign convinced “Yes, I can win”

  

  Argentina’s embattled President Mauricio Macri took to the streets on Saturday with a defiant message: “Yes we can,” he told crowds of supporters in Buenos Aires as he looks to launch an unlikely comeback ahead of general elections next month.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Dry weather threatens 20% of Argentine winter and summer crops

  

  Dry weather in Argentina is hitting the outlooks for wheat and corn crops, local climate experts said, while low-cost soy is being supported by growers looking to hedge their bets with political uncertainty rising ahead of October's presidential vote.