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TEch giant

US trade office adds Amazon, Argentina, Chile to 'notorious markets' list

01-05-2020 12:50 US adds five of Amazon’s overseas operations, Chile and Argentina to its list of “notorious markets’’ where pirated goods are sold. E-commerce giant dismissed the move as part of the Trump administration's “personal vendetta'' against it.

Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs warns Latin America's recession may be worse than 1980s

30-03-2020 19:45 Latin America's economies are deteriorating faster than ever before and are heading for their worst post-World War II contraction, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Surveys show strong support for Fernández's handling of virus crisis

27-03-2020 15:26 Although economic concerns run high among the Argentine population, polling suggests most Argentines approve of Peronist leader's measures to mitigate the harms of Covid-19.

by Jennifer Heiman

NEW STUDY

Average wage fell 44.3% in dollar terms under Macri government, says study

20-02-2020 07:30 New report finds there has been a collapse of the average income in dollar terms since 2015, dropping from US$1,385 to just US$771 in four years.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC: Economic activity fell 1.9% in November

23-01-2020 17:57 Production of goods and services registered 1.7% decline on previous month, with a sharper drop year-on-year.

INTERVIEW: CELS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Gastón Chillier: ‘CELS has an agenda of values, not of politics or partisanship’

09-11-2019 09:49 The executive director of Centre for Legal and Social Studies, one of Argentina’s most influential human rights groups, reflects on the organisation’s four-decade fight – and the battles that still lie ahead.

by Carly Graf

GENDER VIOLENCE

Macri promises new gender violence measures as femicides mount up

02-10-2019 14:33 President vows "concrete measures" as part of re-election campaign. Announcement comes a day after MuMalá feminist organisation reveals there has been a femicide every 32 hours in Argentina since the turn of the year.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN votes to launch new probe into Venezuela rights abuses

27-09-2019 09:41 Resolution tabled by more than a dozen countries from Latin America, including Argentina,adopted by the 47-member council. It called for the UN's top rights body to "dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission" to Venezuela.

GENDER VIOLENCE

47% of violent homicides against women in capital last year were femicides

08-08-2019 14:37 Report released by a prosecutorial unit specialising in violence against women found 19 violent murders of women over last year, of which nine were considered to carry hallmarks of a femicide.

Economic indicators

Construction activity fell 4.2 percent in June

07-08-2019 14:34 As Argentina’s election race heats up, recovery starts to cool.

Inflation

Argentine inflation decelerates for the second consecutive month with a rate of 3.1%

13-06-2019 20:04 The interannual index reached 57.3%. During the last month, the sector that grew the most was health, with a jump of 5.1%.

IMMIGRATION

Latin America, Caribbean no longer leading sources of emigration

25-01-2019 18:47 Argentina was the top destination for migrants moving within Latin America

CLIMATE CHANGE

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

13-10-2018 09:19 IPCC report warns that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster, with its authors calling for a complete transformation not just of the global economy, but of society too.

Made by UCA Social Observatory

New report says poverty will reach 33% as result of devaluation

11-08-2018 12:51 According to the Social Debt Observatory of the UCA Catholic University, the financial crisis has hit poverty even harder than before.

GLOBAL WARMING

Report: Greenhouse gases hit new highs in 2017

04-08-2018 07:52 New study cites how temperatures reached 43.4 Celsius, or 110.1 degrees Fahrenheit, in Puerto Madryn back in January, branding it ‘the highest temperature ever recorded so far south anywhere in the world.’

48.1% OF CHILDREN POOR

UCA report: Half of Argentina's children live in poverty

30-06-2018 08:18 According to a report made by the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA)