News of recovery

Lionel Messi back in full training for PSG after Covid

18-01-2022 17:01 Lionel Messi was back in full training with Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday for the first time since testing positive for Covid-19 at the end of last year.

BLOOMBERG – INTERVIEW

Colombia presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro seeks global anti-oil bloc

17-01-2022 06:59 Colombia’s presidential front-runner Gustavo Petro is calling on ideological allies across Latin America and the world to join him in forming a new bloc to lead the economy away from fossil fuels.

FOOTBALL

Messi 'taking longer than expected' to recover from Covid-19

13-01-2022 16:47 Lionel Messi said on Thursday he needs more time to recover before playing again after contracting Covid-19 earlier this month.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Guzmán forecasts 10% growth for Argentina's economy in 2021

14-12-2021 12:55 Martín Guzmán tells congressional committee that Argentina's economy will grow 10% this year.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina is first in South America to regain pre-Covid fuel demand

05-11-2021 02:17 Argentina is the first major country in Latin America to see gasoline demand recover to pre-pandemic levels.

BLOOMBERG

Debt load threatens Latin America jobs recovery, World Bank says

14-09-2021 12:06 Latin America’s heavily-indebted corporations are likely to delay rehiring workers during the recovery from last year’s slump, according to the World Bank.

Economy

World Bank forecasts 'modest recovery' for Latin America and Caribbean

09-06-2021 14:51 Latin America and the Caribbean will have "modest economic recoveries" in 2021, the World Bank has warned. Argentina's economy forecast to rebound 6.4% this year.

An Indian perspective

Reimagining diplomacy in the post-Covid world

13-04-2021 13:47 Fashioning a robust response to the Covid-19 challenge is set to dominate global diplomacy in 2021.

by Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

INVESTMENT

President pitches Argentina to top global investment funds

16-03-2021 21:23 President Alberto Fernández pitched Argentina’s growth potential to a host of top global investment funds on Tuesday, as he asked them to back the country and its bid for economic recovery.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina’s economy recovery slowed to a crawl in December

24-02-2021 17:52 Economic growth month-over-month slowed to a crawl of 0.9% growth in December, down from 1.4% in November.

Global pandemic

Vaccine delays threaten economies hardest hit by pandemic

23-02-2021 12:24 Latin America and the Caribbean, the region where the coronavirus caused the worst economic destruction and more than a quarter of the world’s deaths, is now falling victim to a slow inoculation campaign.

PERIODISMO PURO / INTERVIEW

Matías Kulfas: 'We believe in an active state, which complements the market'

29-08-2020 08:36 Argentina’s Productive Development Minister on post-pandemic Argentina, the state’s role in the economy and balancing public accounts.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

DEBT RESTRUCTURING TALKS

Markets rally on hopes debt talks are ‘too close to fail’

25-07-2020 09:32 Three largest creditor groups join forces in negotiations, rejecting government's "final" offer and submitting their own counter proposal.

EDITORIAL

Vicentin a V-sign – but which way?

13-06-2020 08:30 Whether taking the kindest or the harshest view of Monday’s intervention of the food conglomerate, the government stands to lose either way.

DEBT TALKS

Government warns creditors that virus crisis will delay 'uncertain' recovery

23-03-2020 08:11 "The debt is not payable due to the critical situation in the country, in a context in which interests have grown rapidly," he said.

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Kulfas: there is no ‘magic way’ to recovery on a very short term

03-02-2020 13:52 The Minister of Productive Development and prolific author, Matías Kulfas, affirmed that there is no magic trick to reactivate the Argentine economy in the very short term. Thus, economic recovery should be expected over a much longer horizon as the government tries to curb the recession.