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Argentina: one step forward, two steps back

According to a report in this morning’s Financial Times, the Argentine government has performed a sharp u-turn and will now allow the IMF to scrutinise its much-maligned national accounts in an attempt to settle its debt owed to western governments (the so -called ‘Paris Club’). The debt, which totals around $7bn, forms part of the near-$100bn of bonds on which the government defaulted in 2001.

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