Tag: Argentine unemployment

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 03:52 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina stable at 7.1%, but jobless have stopped looking for work, said Indec

  

  Argentina's Indec stats office latest release shows that unemployment was stable in the first quarter, at 7.1% in the yearly comparison, but that is only because some of the jobless have stopped looking for work, as employment rates continued a declining trend which started in 2011.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  Argentina doesn't need international credit, “we have foreign currency to face debt maturities”

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof has assured that the government of president Cristina Fernandez is not seeking international financing despite current economic problems, since it has foreign trade surpluses and all the foreign exchange needed to face debt maturities.

• Thursday, August 1st 2013 - 04:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez says unemployment is down to 7.2% but calls for more job creation

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate fell to 7.2% in the second quarter of 2013 compared with 7.9% in the first quarter of the year, President Cristina Fernandez announced during a speech praising her government’s industrialization and added-value policies.