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...news was grim but not surprising. According to Argentina's newly appointed Economics Minister José Maria Dagnino Pastore, his country's economy was in a "state of collapse without precedent." Radical therapy was needed. In a televised 18-min. speech, Dagnino Pastore announced last week what amounted to a 180° turnaround in economic policies. Argentina will move away from the liberal, free-market approach that has been an aim of the country's military government since it took power in 1976 and back toward the kind of protectionism that has been characteristic since World...
...Dagnino Pastore's announcement under scored the obvious: for all practical purposes, Argentina is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, a condition that was be coming apparent well before its defeat in the disastrous Falklands war. In the past three years, the country's foreign debt has doubled, from $10 billion to $20 billion. In addition, private Argentine companies' foreign debt last year was $15.6 billion. Meanwhile Argentina's inflation is estimated at 125% annually, and the country's industries are operating at only 63% of capacity...
...Dagnino Pastore's solution to Argentina's woes is complex. He devalued the peso, thus encouraging exports and making imports more expensive, and he proposed a program of low interest rates to help the country's manufacturers, whose businesses were failing last year at a rate six times as great as in 1977. To pacify Argentina's politically powerful public employees, he gave out pay hikes of between...
...chief problem with Dagnino Pastore's approach is that it is likely to send inflation even higher. "I'm afraid that the new program will cause hyperinflation within 30 to 45 days," says Alejandro Reynal, a Dartmouth-trained economist and former vice president of Argentina's Central Bank. "Usually, the only solution for hyperinflation is total collapse of the economy and then a rebuilding...
Rocky and his task force of 21 experts landed running. He hosted a breakfast for Argentine businessmen, met with local farm officials, and consulted with Foreign Minister Juan Martin and Economics Minister Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore. At noon, Rocky was off to see President Juan Carlos Ongania for two hours of frank talk in Spanish, which Rockefeller speaks well. While the members of his task force, armed with tape recorders, fanned out to talk with local counterparts in fields as diverse as exports and hospitals, the Governor huddled in secret with antigovernment students. It was a caustic session. The students...