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The Argentine government announced April 19 that an "indefinite" banking holiday would begin April 22, setting off a new round of anti-government demo...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - When you are practicing the tango, even walking is cool.
The teacher stands in front of the tango class, his black hair slicked back and his expression intense. He steps forward - toes pointed, back straight - as novices try in vain to follow his debonair lead.
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Argentina's former economy minister Domingo Cavallo has been indicted on charges related to illegal arms shipments to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s...
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Argentina's Economy Minister Felisa Miceli is under investigation from prosecutors after a security check found thousands of dollars in cash in her of...
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On June 21, the Argentine Senate, controlled by the opposition Partido Justicialista-peronista (PJ), approved Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo's bill ...
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ISBN: 9780896802742
TITLE: When sugar ruled; economy and society in northwestern Argentina, Tucuman, 1876-1916.
AUTHOR: Juarez-Dappe, Patricia.
PUBLIS...
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The authors also agree that to achieve such a society, a strong, more active and reformed state must engage with various civil society actors.\n While it is now clear that economic policies begun by the military in the late 1970s have had a transformative impact on Argentina's economy, society and state, it should also be evident that the intensity of these changes reflects a variety of historical factors.
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Argentine President Nestor Kirchner replaced Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna with Felisa Miceli, head of the state-owned Banco Nacion on Nov. 28, 200...
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Employment regulations are needed to allow efficient contracting between employers and workers and to protect workers from discriminatory or unfair treatment by employers. In its indicators on , Doing Business measures flexibility in the regulation of hiring, working hours and dismissal in a manner consistent with the conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO). An economy can have the most flexible labor regulations as measured by Doing Business while ratifying and complying with all conventions directly relevant to the factors measured by Doing Business4 and with the ILO core labor standards. No economy can achieve a better score by failing to comply with these conventions.
In Africa, Uganda (in 2006), Mozambique (in 2007) and Burkina Faso (in 2008) ena...
...In Latin America, Argentina reduced the severance payment for a worker with 20...
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The United States should learn a lesson from Argentina about reforming an economy to serve the people.
On Oct. 23, Argentina's incumbent president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, won a landslide re-election victory, with 53 percent of the vote, versus 17 percent for her closest challenger.