Tag: Argentina

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:49 UTC

  Almost half of foreign residents in Argentina are from Paraguay and Bolivia

  

  Of the just over 40 million Argentines, 4.5% are foreigners, according to the latest census, and the most numerous community is made up of over half a million from neighbouring Paraguay.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentine August inflation at 2% pushed by food prices, say private estimates

  

  A surge in fresh food prices has pushed Argentina’s August consumer inflation to one of the highest of the year, 2% over the previous month, according to private consultant estimates and published in the Buenos Aires press.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 22:26 UTC

  Argentina’s industry praises CFK calls for ‘national unity’ to achieve development

  

  Argentina’s powerful industries union, UIA, called on Friday for dialogue and ‘national unit’ in order ‘to bring together a project of development’, and forecasted that if this is achieved the country could triple its GDP in the next twelve years.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentina’s population stands at 40.117.096, up 10.7% from the 2001 census

  

  Argentina has a population of 40.117.096, according to the definitive facts of the 2010 National Population and Home census released by the country’s national statistics and census bureau, Indec.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 08:26 UTC

  Argentina plans to lower unemployment to 5% in the next to years

  

  Argentina’s Deputy Minister of Economy, Roberto Feletti stated on Thursday that the idea of the government is to “reduce the level of unemployment to 5%” in the coming two years.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 03:26 UTC

  England and Argentina – More than just a game?

  

  As New Zealand prepares to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, we look at a game which will cause much interest in Latin America and the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  Argentina’s big business warms up to CFK: confrontation is ‘pointless’

  

  Big business in Argentina agreed to prolong the current ‘truce’ with the government of President Cristina Fernandez but called for more investment and improved competitiveness with more accessible financing, besides a return to the international voluntary credit market and an agreement with the Club of Paris.

• Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 02:30 UTC

  Argentina, with Brazilian support proposes a South American Space agency

  

  Argentina proposed this week in Brazil the creation of a South American Space Agency, an initiative which was supported by host Brazil during a Defence seminar in Sao Paulo.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  US grain farmers furious with Argentina and Canada advance in the Colombia market

  

  Argentina has rapidly displaced the US as the main supplier to Colombia of corn and in near future wheat, with volumes soaring from 99.000 tons in 2007 to over 2.2 million tons currently, points out Agrimoney.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 08:46 UTC

  Rush to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina’s Neuquen basin

  

  Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest US oil company, will spend as much as 76.3 million dollars to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina with Americas Petrogas Inc.