Present and Future of Argentina’s Economy: A Conversation with Axel Kicillof
Overview
*This seminar will be in Spanish.
Last year, Argentina suffered a currency crisis that has worsened poverty and unemployment. Inflation remains at its highest level in three decades. In response to these economic challenges, President Mauricio Macri signed an International Monetary Fund program that requires deep budget cuts and urges faster reforms to the country’s labor code and pension system. The IMF loans have kept Argentina from default, but they are not without critics.
Axel Kicillof, a congressman for the City of Buenos Aires and member of the Peronist Frente para la Victoria, has been one of the most vocal critics of Mr. Macri’s pro-market reforms and austerity. A former economy minister under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2013 to 2015, Mr. Kicillof is still considered one of her closest advisers.
His economic vision for Argentina calls for an alternative program focused on increasing production, employment, and public investment.
Please join us on Friday, May 10, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss an alternative view of how to resolve Argentina’s economic challenges in advance of this year’s presidential elections.
Opening Remarks
Benjamin N. Gedan
Senior Adviser, Latin American Program
Director, Argentina Project
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Keynote Speaker
Axel Kicillof
Congressman, City of Buenos Aires
Former Minister of Economy
Moderator
Juan Carlos López
Chief Correspondent
CNN en Español
Hosted By
Argentina Project
The Argentina Project is the premier institution for policy-relevant research on politics and economics in Argentina. Read more
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
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