The study presents an overview on Argentina's economic growth, income distribution, and poverty, mostly as of 1991, when the country underwent a period of adjustment, which remarkably led to a sharp inflation drop, to the privatization of state-owned industries, and to fostering foreign commerce, thus widening the economy. Nonetheless, the study points out that all of these adjustments affected the poor, particularly through labor demand, exacerbated...
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2000/03/23
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Poverty Assessment
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19992
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2
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2010/06/12
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Disclosed
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Background papers
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basic food basket
Citation
Argentina : poor people in a rich country (Vol. 2 of 2) : Background papers (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/627641468003625450