Three main financial institutions are investing in the economic recovery of Argentina while trying to deregulate.
Argentina has achieved $ 42 billion in medium -term funds of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and two other financial institutions, since it announced that it is to leave most of its adjusted currency controls.
The IMF Executive Board on Friday approved a rescue package of $ 20 billion that will be distributed in the next four years, with an immediate disbursement of $ 12 billion and another $ 2 billion greedy after a planned review for June.
The World Bank also announced a $ 12 billion support package for Argentina, and the Inter -American Development Bank (IDB) said it will provide up to $ 10 billion in financing for the public and private sectors. Both are three -year plans.
President Javier Milei announced Friday that, as of Monday, he will raise most of the strict capital and currency controls of Argentina as part of the agreements obtained by the huge financing agreements.
“Today we are breaking the disappointment and disenchantment cycle and we are beginning to advance for the first time,” he said on national television while his flanked ministers. “We have eliminated exchange controls on the Argentine economy forever.”
Capital controls, known in Argentina as “El Cepo” or “La Esquadera”, were imposed by an earlier administration in 2019 with the aim of preventing a greater financial fall and capital flight that the country has been dealing with for years.
The controls were reduced to the ability of people to buy US dollars, giving rise to a black market that is widely used by citizens. They also restricted the access of companies to dollars, discouraging the foreign investment that Milei needs.
The Argentine Central Bank now aims to allow the weight to be negotiated within a so -called currency band instead of firmly setting the currency besieged to the dollar.
The band varies from 1,000 to 1,400 pesos per green and will expand by 1 percent each month, according to the Central Bank.
When announcing its last support package, the IMF said that the program “is expected to be a greater official multilateral sources” and “seeks to facilitate a timely return to international capital markets.”
“The program supports a path to consolidated macroconomic stability, the strengthening of external sustainability and laying the foundations for a stronger and more resilient growth,” he said, adding that its key pillars include the city of villages that adhere to A. Inquiring A. Intinction A. Intinction A. Intinction of the adjusting akinging akining alar “
The organization praised the new commitment of the Argentine authorities with a zero deficit budget objective, which has delivered the first fiscal surplus in almost two decades.
But to achieve surplus, Milei has triggered tens of thousands of state workers, and their review hits the population strongly, even increasing poverty levels.
