Having already hit the IMF’s primary deficit target for this year, Argentine policymakers have made impressive progress on fiscal tightening. But the squeeze so far accounts for only a third of the total effort requested by the IMF over the course of the bailout. Austerity will be particularly difficult to sustain ahead of October’s elections.
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