... tax revenues to cover costs, Argentina's monetary policy consisted largely of printing money to accommodate the fiscal deficit. The result, not surprisingly, was monetary chaos. The convertibility plan was finally proposed as a way to control the fiscal deficit, not by attacking fiscal mismanagement directly, but rather by removing the ability of monetary policy to accommodate it. By handing over control of Argentina's monetary policy to the US, Argentina's financial authorities ... hoped that monetary constraints would impose fiscal discipline where economic theory and political respon...

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... improve productivity and boost economic growth. Argentina Crisis Overview. According to Cibils, Weisbrot and Debugnai (2002) the IMF is still insisting that "failures in fiscal policy constitute the root of the current Argentinian crisis-, and recommending fiscal and monetary austerity as a means of reviving investor confidence and thereby stimulating economic recovery. But this approach has failed for more than four years, as the economy ... 2001. All stated that none of this deficit spending was very large in the face of such a deep depression. This was a truly unviable system. It is ...

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... military rule and internal conflict. From the late 1940s to 1980s bad economic policies and political turmoil resulted in a stagnating economy. The government would run fiscal deficits because of irresponsible spending and low tax revenues from the poor economy, and to fix this problem would print new money, resulting in variable rates ... investors weary of investing in developing countries, and, consequently, Argentina suffered a recession. What began as a recession, would, through other external shocks and bad macroeconomic policy, eventually turn into the devastating economic crisis o...

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