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The National Ministry of Social Welfare must be closed

In its two decades of existence, this Ministry specialized in distributing welfare programs on a discretionary basis. It served only to encourage mobilizations and to use poverty for electoral purposes. In order to stop manipulating the poor and provide solutions, a structural change of strategy is necessary. (more…)

The real wages of the poor fell 33% since 2018

Since the crisis began, at the beginning of 2018, the informal salary grew below the prices of the poverty line. This is the main factor explaining poverty increase. To reverse this social degradation, it is essential to lower inflation. For this, an integral public sector reform must be addressed. (more…)

Half of the poor youths do not finish high school

Toyota’s difficulty in hiring employees with a high school education made explicit the large number of young people who do not finish high school. Moreover, those who do finish suffer from low-quality education. The pandemic is the opportunity to rethink high school in such a way that serves young people and companies. (more…)

24,000 deaths and 1,5 millón poor people could have been avoided

Mismanagement of the pandemic led to neglect of the economy and health. Chile and Uruguay suffer fewer deaths and less poverty than Argentina. This is the consequence of Argentina’s long tradition of improvisation and lack of professionalism in the management of the public sector. (more…)

Gender distinction in id cards and in pensions must be eliminated

The government presented the non-binary document. At the same time, it modified by decree the pension law, deepening the differences between genders. These decisions are contradictory and much improvised. Almost immediately, rejections appeared and enormous costs will be incurred in the future. (more…)

The Government´s plan need 50% inflation

The very high inflation in Argentina is not an undesired effect but the instrument that allows reducing public spending in real value. The reduction is for the excess of the level that can be financed with taxes and debt. Delaying the State’s reform will keep inflation making the adjustments on the public finances. (more…)

Free choice of health insurance is restricted for 650,00 people yearly

A new norm establishes that those who start a new job will have to contribute compulsorily to the health insurance of their activity during one year. This means that to maintain health insurance, pocket payments must be done. Another inefficiency in the health system and discouragement in the salaried jobs. (more…)

There is still AR$1.2 trillion in excess of monetary expansion

In the first half of the year, the government reduced the fiscal deficit and the money emission. However, the situation is still extremely precarious, among other reasons because of last year’s large monetary expansion. In this context, more public spending will not reactivate the economy but will deepen the crisis. (more…)

Private medicine is on the verge of collapse

The pandemic and the government’s refusal to authorize price updates deepened the crisis in private medicine. In a context in which Covid-19 does not budge, it is extremely risky to activate this conflict and simultaneously propose a reform of the health system that is inconsistent. (more…)

The destruction of employer companies has doubled

The accumulation of crises has very harmful impacts. A notable fact in the current recessionary cycle is that the companies destruction has accelerated. Besides the pandemic, this is the consequence of deficient commercial, tax, and labor regulations. (more…)