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Argentina: progress on reform slows ahead of legislative elections

President Macri has made solid progress in tackling Argentina’s economic vulnerabilities over the past eighteen months but reform momentum more recently has slowed. With legislative elections scheduled for October, we suspect that progress on two key outstanding issues – namely the unsustainable growth of government spending and central bank monetisation of the budget deficit – will be limited.

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