Subsides
The persistence of inflation generates justified concerns. The main reason is that important savings obtained in energy subsidies went to higher spending in other subsidies and in national programs that overlap with provincial and municipal functions. Meanwhile, the high growth of ANSES (the social security office) expenditures continues. There is no possibility of reducing inflation without a more comprehensive reengineering of the public sector. (más…)
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The progress made in the tariff normalization and the modernization of the tariff scheme organizing it as a transport network goes in the right direction. But the national authorities are not the ones that must make these decisions neither to finance them. It is time for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the Province of Buenos Aires, for the Conurbano –or Great Buenos Aires–, to assume their responsibility. (más…)
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