... 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 remains mired in a depression, with a loss of more than 20 percent of GDP since the last business cycle peak in 1998. Furthermore, the crisis was not caused by fiscal profligacy. The worsening of the ... short-term rates in February of 1994, and kept going on through the Mexican, Asian, Russian, and Brazilian financial crises (1995- 1999). Argentina's currency board system contributed significantly to the depre...

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... early 1900s Argentina experienced high growth rates from the exportation of beef and wheat and was one of the strongest economies in the world. The First World War and Great Depression were hard on primary product exports, and, like many other Latin American countries, Argentina responded with import substitution industrialization. Its government erected trade barriers in an attempt to stimulate the ... domestic economy and become self-sufficient. This approach was successful during the Great Depression, but in the long-run resulted in low growth rates. In addition to the effects of imp...

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... refrigeration, lead to a steady increase in prosperity. The extremely high percentage of immigrants brought a European sentiment, which left many native-born Argentineans upset and questioning their own nationalism. With the depression and industrialization in other countries, Argentina began to grow dependant on foreign investors and markets, primarily Britain, France and Germany. Focus on global market rather than self-sufficiency, along with ... ...

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... 20th century history. The video probes to be very useful when trying to understand the reasons behind an Argentinean economy that used to be on the brink of a serious economic depression during the mid 1970s and which now booms as the leader of a more progressive Latin American economy. It does this by exploring the period of time in which Peron ruled ... ...

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... the interior became disgruntled as the City usurped all the capital and resources of the country The Formation of the Radical Party - 1889 --1880: The economic boom began to become a depression - The overwhelming unrest in the rural middle class over the catastrophic inflation produced the Radical party o The birth of the new party in 1890 coincided with a financial crisis; the stock ... ...

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