Argentina & the IMF: 23rd time lucky?

Argentina’s latest IMF programme and the move to partially dismantle some capital controls and liberalise the exchange rate suggests policymakers are moving more quickly than we’d anticipated to restore macro orthodoxy. The parameters of the exchange rate regime suggest that the peso will remain overvalued, though, and further steps to weaken the currency will be needed.

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