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Argentina seeking US$5 billion from multilateral banks for 2021

22-12-2020 20:41 Argentina is seeking about US$5 billion for next year from multilateral organisations other than the International Monetary Fund, reports Bloomberg.

Argentina asks for help as Saudi hosts G20 virtual talks on virus recovery, debt crisis

18-07-2020 07:00 Foreign Minister Felipe Solá says he will urge the G20 to set up a global "solidarity-based fund" to address the increase in poverty in virus-battered countries.

World Bank: Argentina's economy to shrink by 5.2% this year

13-04-2020 08:41 World Bank predicts Latin America shrinking by 4.6% this year, with growth only returning in 2021.

Miguel Pesce: ‘In this emergency, the mechanism is printing money’

11-04-2020 10:07 Central Bank chief Miguel Ángel Pesce on the economy, printing money, the coronavirus pandemic and the problems that lie ahead.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Economic activity dropped 3.8% in August year-on-year

24-10-2019 21:00 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently predicted that Argentina's gross domestic product would decline by 3.1% in 2019.

World Bank: Slowdown in Latin America 'more self-inflicted than imported'

10-10-2019 15:19 World Bank predicts Argentina's economic contraction will deepen this year to 3.1%.

Steady as it goes: The World Bank and Argentina

07-09-2019 01:44 The World Bank lent some US$8 billion in over 50 credits to both the tail end of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and the elected Raúl Alfonsín Radical government.

by Michael Soltys