ARGENTINA ECONOMY

LINKS:
Banco Frances
Banco Quilmes
Consejo Federal de Inversiones
Consejo Profesional de Ciencias Económicas
Economicas.com
Latin stock market
Ministerio de Economía y Obras Públicas
Sistema Bursátil Argentino  Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires

1998
Argentina says will miss IMF-agreed targets
Argentina's Menem orders freeze on spending

1999
Argentina ponders a dollar currency
Argentina's economic growth halved, outlook worse
Argentina's New Chief Wins $2 Billion Increase in Taxes
Argentina's Lost World
Argentina's Rapidly Rising Oil Fortunes
Buck Doesn't Stop: Now Argentina May Adopt it
'Dollarization' by Argentina Hits Resistance
For Argentina, an Economic Trickle Down From Brazil
Selling to Argentina (as Translated From the French)

2000
Argentina, Wobbly, Clears a Borrowing Hurdle
Argentina's Economy Casts a Shadow
U.S., Seeing Threat of Disease, Holds Trade in Argentine Beef

2001
Argentina Calls on Ex-Economics Chief to Halt Slide
Argentina Hammered as Aid Fails to Materialize
Argentina in crunch tax talks with holdout provinces
Argentina in Quandary as Protest by Jobless Gets Nasty
Argentina Limits Withdrawals as Banks Near Collapse
Argentina May Peg Peso to Euro as Well as Dollar
Argentina Moves to Overhaul Peso's Peg to the Dollar
Argentina Plans Debt Swap in Billions, Delaying Payments
Argentina Presses for Ways to Jolt Its Economy Out of Recession
Argentina Pressing Creditors to Trim Rates
Argentina to comply with IMF fiscal targets
Argentina Off to Fast Start This Year
Argentina Says It Will Restructure Debt
Argentina sinks into squalor as financial crisis deepens
Argentina suffers outburst against free trade
Argentina Tries to Swap Bond Debt
Argentina, With Bond Swap, Seeks to Revive Its Economy
Argentina won't honor foreign debt
Argentina's Blue Christmas: No Jingling Registers
Argentina's Economic Woes Devastate Its Middle Class
Argentina's Malaise, Ever Worsening, Could Infect Others
Argentina's Provinces Struggle to Stay Afloat
Argentina's Stopgap Cash Gets Some Funny Looks
Argentina to introduce new currency
Argentine Austerity Plan Gathers Support
Argentine Chief Tells Wall St. That Debt Swap Is Best Course
Argentine Debt Downgraded
Argentine Economy Dives, Setting Off Investor Panic
Argentine Economy Minister Tries to Maintain Optimism
Argentine Food Riots End, but Hunger Doesn't
Argentine Leader Announces Debt Revision and Subsidies
Argentine Leader Declares Default on $132 Billion Debt
Argentine Rates Surge as Fears of Debt Default Grow
Argentine Wine Slowly Comes to Life
Argentine With a Headache: The Economy
Argentines Sell Short-Term Debt at a High Cost
As Elite Resort Slumps, Argentina Doesn't Cry
Debt restructuring sought
Economy Aide to the Rescue, as Argentina Fights Default
Economy's Dive Dazes Once Giddy Argentina
Economic Jitters Send Latin American Stocks Reeling
Economic Plunge Exacts Social Toll in Argentina
Economic Troubles Worsen in Argentina
Finance Minister of Argentina Resigns Post
For Argentina, the Inevitable May Be Only Postponed
From No Aid to a Bailout for Argentina
Hard Times Tarnish a Sterling Symbol
I.M.F. Gives Budget-Cut Order to Argentina
IMF loans are no salve for Argentina's wounds
I.M.F. Won't Support New Loan for Argentina
Latin American leaders appeal to Bush on Argentina
New Minister for Economy Presses Ahead in Argentina
On the streets of Buenos Aires, there's anguish, misery, 'no way out'
Politicians are at root of Argentina's difficulties
Protests Erupt in Argentina Amid Financial Instasbility
Rivalry Redux as Argentina Blames Brazil for Slowdown
S.& P. Warns Argentina of Debt Default
Subsidies for Poor Proposed to Aid Argentine Economy
To Weather Recession, Argentines Revert to Barter
Trouble in Argentina May Help Other Emerging Markets
Upper Classes Stoop to Pinch Every Peso

JANUARY 2002
A Country in Chapter 11?
Argentina Devalues, and the Spanish Feel the Loss
Argentina Is Still Shaky Despite Currency Measures
Argentina Offers Economic Plan, Hoping to Sidestep Court
Argentina Planning a Shift to Pesos
Argentina Unlinks Peso From Dollar, Bracing for Devaluation
Argentine Government Proposes Tight Budget
Argentine Leader Moves Against Court and Banks
Argentine Peso Drops Sharply After Link to the Dollar Ends
Argentine Peso Sinks to New Lows as Crisis Continues
Argentine Stock Exchange Is Reopened
Argentines' deposits frozen for up to 3 years
Argentines' mortgage loans swelling beyond calculation
AT&T and Others Brace for Trouble From Argentina
Cash-strapped Argentines return to bartering system
Falling Peso (Online Newshour, Jan. 7)
Financial collapse under scrutiny
Nation could soon move to free peso
Turmoil Grows as Argentine Fiscal Crisis Deepens

FEBRUARY 2002
Argentina Lets Peso Float
Argentine Government Says It Can't Pay Its Workers
Ban Lifted, Argentines Rush at Chance to Shed Pesos
IMF's Stony Silence On Austerity Plans Worries Argentina
In Argentina, Going Without
Life in Argentina's free-fall economy
Peso Peg: Done Wisely, but Not Too Well?
Pesos? Scrip? Making Change Is a Challenge

MARCH 2002
Argentine Crisis Deepens as Peso Plunges
Argentine Estates Decay With Economy
Argentine Peso Plunges to New Low
Argentinean surgeons protest, refuse to operate
Argentines Lose Confidence in Banks
Hard-Pressed Argentina to Tax All Exports
IMF defends its Argentine policy

APRIL 2002
Anxious Argentines Catch 'Green Fever'
Argentina to suspend all banking
Argentine bank freeze backed
Argentine Congress Tightens Rules on Bank Withdrawals
Argentines hasten to ATMs in a desperate dash for cash
Back in Business, Argentina Calms Down and the Peso Perks Up
Bank Holiday and Creditors Add to Crisis in Argentina
Freeze on Deposits Is No Holiday, Argentines Find

MAY-DECEMBER 2002
Argentina Eases Freeze on Bank Accounts
Argentina Permits Withdrawals From Savings
Argentina Says I.M.F. Talks Will Resume
Argentina Shakes, Uruguay Rattles
Argentina's problems are 'homegrown'
Argentine businessman calls for freer trade
Argentine Court Rejects Conversion of Deposits
For Wary Argentines, the Crops Are Cash
I.M.F. Gives Argentina a Delay
In foundering Argentina, entrepreneurs shift gears
As Multinationals Run the Taps, Anger Rises Over Water for Profit
Provinces key to Argentine fix
Respite for Gasping Argentina as I.M.F. Defers Loan Payment
Steak Endures in Argentina's Lean Times
Argentina defaults on $805 million payment

 2003
Argentina Struggles to Meet Debt-Relief Terms
Gulf Between the Rich and the Poor Grows in Argentina
Even amid economic woes, Argentines live it up
The Good Life Is No More for Argentina
For Argentines, A Sweet Resolve

2004
Economic Crisis Leaves Many Adrift
G-7 chiefs decry debts of Argentina
Argentina Agrees to Pay IMF
Lots of debts - one unhappy birthday
IMF Says Its Policies Crippled Argentina

2005
Argentina plays chicken with foreign investors
Half-Century Later, a New Look at Argentine-Nazi Ties