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In the aftermath of the financial crisis that broke out in 2008, new terms to talk about sustainable development started to emerge: the "green" economy and "green" growth. Some countries supported their usage and others did not. The literature witnessed the recrudescence of the debate on the relationship between economic activity and taking care of the environment, divided into three stances: degrowth advocates, "green" growth backers, and the growth-agnostics. This paper dives into the different "green" terms, paying special attention to the case of Argentina. Unlike in previous papers, which have analyzed country interventions in international forums, the methodology here was to search the web pages of the most relevant local players. The most traditional terms ("sustainable development") were strongly predominant, and the concepts of "green" economy or "green" growth were few and far between. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, transformations in the rural sector set out challenges to think the current dynamics that underlies it; among other things, related to the production model that has been defined, to the processes that different stakeholders directly related to the activity have gone through, and to the socio-economic dynamics linked to the rural sector that unfold and their impact on local spaces. This paper reflects on what has happened in rural Argentina, particularly in the Pampas Region, in relation to these problems. The paper starts by considering some transformation processes that have taken place in the rural sector at a global level to analyse, then, the dominant trends of the rural sector in the Pampas region that allow us to affirm that a new model of agricultural development has been introduced. On the basis of various antecedents, the paper will then present a conceptual proposal to address the problem of the territorial dynamics of the rural actors, the economic aspects and their incidence on local spaces. This dynamics has not been studied specifically from this perspective, and emphasizes the economic-productive elements implied in the constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of territories, resorting to the notion of capital circulation of the rural actors which constitutes a relevant point to understand the processes that emerge today in agricultural development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Mining is the main engine of development", is one of the most commonly used arguments in support of the activity. This paper is the product of comprehensive interpretive research, which aims to test this hypothesis, using extractive mining in San Juan, a province in the center-west of Argentina, as a case study. One of the key findings of this study is that high foreign investment in mining is not synonymous with development. To the contrary, mining creates growth which is concentrated, exclusive and unsustainable, and which undermines external commercial apparatus, displaces traditional modes of production and triggers a process of socio-environmental conflicts, causing irreversible ecological damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work incorporates factual disagreements as a conceptual hinge between responsibility and responsiveness. Within this conceptual framework, I analyze the policy of debt relief carried out by the Argentine Government between 2003 and 2014. Based on this analysis, it is argued that, although there is a consensus that responsiveness is a positive attribute for democracy, its existence does not always become a valuable fact for the quality of democracy. In order for this to take place, responsiveness must be accompanied by the legitimacy of factual disagreements, which has not occurred in the analyzed period. This paper describes the existence of a deficient institutional performance within the National Public Credit Office to process and legitimize factual disagreements, which has prevented the government's responsiveness towards citizens to lead to an improvement in the quality of Argentine democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the backdrop of global economic growth, the widening of technology gaps, and the adverse evolution of prices for industrialization, Argentina is one of the countries in Latin America that has seen the (partial and temporary) return of public policy to the economic policy agenda. This paper poses the hypothesis that in spite of the revival of industrial policy actions and instruments to promote technological capabilities and foster a framework of incentives favorable to industrialization, a new industrial policy has failed to emerge in light of weak coordination and the absence of a senior body in the hierarchy to implement it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to elucidate the role of financial capital in the dynamics of the Argentine economy between 2002 and 2012, this paper analyzes several aspects of the relationship between financial capital and the State. "Debt reduction" partially dismantled public debt as the backbone of speculative activity, although it maintained its profitability and priority position in economic policy decision-making. On the other hand, financial regulation contributed to keeping the mechanism of debt and did not significantly alter the central role played by financial capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The financial and exchange rate crisis observed in Argentine at the end of 2001 showed the importance of understanding the factors that explain the evolution of the balance of payments and, in particular, of the current account. The objective of this work is to show recent developments in the theory of the current account and its application to the Argentine case. In the first place, short and long term correlations between national saving and domestic investment is considered through a model of a mechanism of correction of errors. Later, the paper analyzes the main shocks that affect to the current account in agreement with different theories. Finally, the paper shows the intertemporary approach of the current account. In this case, the paper considers a standard version of this approach and a model that makes flexible some of its main basic assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent tensions in the current accounts of Argentina have reopened the debate regarding external constraints on growth (ECG). In 2003-2013, export growth was slightly lower than it was during the convertibility era, but a major decline in the income elasticity of import demand mitigated the ECG. However, the effective growth rate was higher than that imposed by the ECG, according to Thirlwall's law, which led to the deterioration of the trade balance and growth. This was due to the trade deficit in manufactured goods of industrial origin (MIO), in light of technology dependence in capital goods and inputs. This paper analyzes the evolution of ECGS in Argentina at both the global and sector level, aiming to determine which MIO sectors had the greatest impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the principal characteristics of capital flight in Argentina since the collapse of the convertibility regime and the macroeconomic consequences of this capital flight. Using data on the formation of foreign assets, this article researched the factors that played a role in the most significant episodes of capital flight, which in 2011 obliged the government to enforce strong currency exchange controls to curb the depletion of Central Bank reserves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to contribute to the current debate on (regional) development. It suggests that regionalist analyses and policies have turned a blind eye to certain dynamics that influence the performance of regional spaces. Based on a case study of Argentina (2001-2014) in a region that produces agricultural machinery (AM), we propose to make progress in opening up a more introspective view of the regionalist approach, considering: a) the role of the region-building process in the broader national and macro-political project, b) a description of certain extra-local factors that stimulated technological change and improved the regional demand for AM and c) a description of actions taken by the national State to promote the regional economic regeneration of AM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the economic impact of Peronism in the Nahuel Huapi region and reviews the material and symbolic aspects of this district, which borders Chile and is associated with both the existing national park in the region and the city of Bariloche. To this end, and in dialogue with the material processes of the period, self-recognition and links to other regions were analyzed. The contribution of this manuscript is its recognition that despite Peronism having been experienced as one of the most significant development shifts in the Nahuel Huapi region, and especially in the town of San Carlos de Bariloche, documents both provide evidence of continuity processes and discuss the existing account of a break. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climatic, productive and economic variability have made the dwellers of Salinas Grandes (Catamarca) adopt diversification strategies for economic activities, implementing multiple use systems, due to the great diversity of environments and resources. The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationships between conditional variables and economic diversification, and to identify life strategies that have set the communities to adopt multiple use systems in Salinas Grandes. Rapid rural diagnoses were made over 81 families from 13 communities of this region. We calculated land use areas for each community, and made floristic censuses over five characteristic environments. With the obtained data, we built economic diversity and biodiversity indexes; we made regressions among the obtained variables. The farmers that raise cattle diversify less because they can capitalize of decapitalize depending on the situation. The ones that cannot perform this activity, due mainly to ecological conditions of their lands, must diversify their production, mainly by goat raising. Total land incomes depend basically on land area and not on vegetation diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a world in crisis, some analysts are once again revisiting the Argentinean situation in 2001 as a symptom of a political and economic model that was already showing its faults. During that crisis, both the banks and the State violated one of the rules of the system: the intangibility of private property. Nevertheless, there were already signs that foretold the ‘fiction' neoliberalism would turn out to be, and some Argentinean novels and films continued to discuss it. This paper studies the rules of fiction in a reality that continuously redefines the limits of verisimilitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 90s, in the Province of Mendoza, Argentina, three public-private organizations were designed to implement local productive development policies: Fondo Vitivinícola Mendoza (Vinification-controlling and Wine consumption-promoting Agency), Pro- Mendoza (Export-promoting Agency) and Instituto de Desarrollo Rural (Rural information and planning Agency). The article focuses on analyzing and explaining the emergence and permanence of the Agencies, on the roles assumed by the Provincial Government, on the characteristics of the private sector involvement and on the structuring of the public-private partnership. The paper shows that internal and external factors explain the emergence of the Agencies and that their permanence through several Provincial Administrations is due to organizational design and practice traits, to preexisting political and entrepreneurial links, and to a priori positive results. The article offers evidence about the Government's active presence and concludes with remarks about the eventual significance of these new public governance modalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the city of Monte Hermoso has experimented a marked process of urban expansion, mainly as a response to the growth of tourism. The aim of this paper is to analyze the above-mentioned process through the role that the urban land market exerts on the urban configuration, emphasizing the role of estate agents which operate in this market, thus generating a differential valuation of certain areas of the urban space. The methodology used is based on fieldwork, the implementation of semi-structured interviews with key informants and the preparation of thematic mapping for the analysis of data and the communication of results. The most remarkable result of spatial land market performance is the creation of a series of urban areas, which acquire properties that differ from each other and that are directly influenced by the price of the lots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Argentina, some works imply, as an unavoidable process, the disappearance of the rural towns, mainly in the "Pampa" region. Although this statement is true, it does not mean that the tendency is unambiguous; on the contrary, differentiated demographic dynamics of rural towns can be identified, which are strongly linked to the characteristics of production systems and the possibilities of non - agrarian jobs, with a combination of incomes and a seasonal / temporary working mobility. Within the framework of this discussion about the rural world, the need to understand the processes of change that are taking place emerges, which rescues the social, cultural and production realities of the rural communities. Therefore, this paper aims at understanding the changes that are affecting the towns and rural population in an extensive "rionegrino" territory: "La Linea Sur" (The South Line). Through the assessment of case studies, the differentiating tendencies are analysed in order to prove the growth or decline of towns, the development of pluri - activity forms of development and their connection with de - agriculturization processes of the rural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the Additional Worker Effect in Argentina. We conclude that such effect exists, that it is large and that it is highly persistent even when using a wide array of controls in the regressions. It is also observed that spouses of working heads who become unemployed return to formal or informal employment with more intensity. We do not find evidence that impacts on spouse unemployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzing the articulation between the process of successful capital valorization and the tendency towards a devalorization of merchandise is applied to one of the manifestations of the Argentine crisis: the peso's devaluation. The paper studies the relationship between the determination of the exchange rate and capital valorization. It discusses the concrete trends of the Argentine economy in the 1990s, showing how the devaluation of 2001-2002 was the necessary product of the process of successful valorization itself during the previous period (1991-1998) and its crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the patterns of knowledge creation and diffusion in two textile industrial districts located in the Argentinean cities of Mar del Plata and Pergamino. Both of them have an important number of supplier manufacturing firms linked to fashion-oriented clothing subcontractors, which are located inside or outside the geographical boundaries of each city. The methodology research is quantitative and descriptive. The results show that Pergamino has developed over time a stronger knowledge base than Mar del Plata, which could be related to different historical circumstances and evolutionary paths. This has an important effect on firms' architectural knowledge and strategies. Even though in Pergamino there is a permanent flow of external technological know how, which increase its knowledge base and let the firms belonging to the cluster to share it, there is not new fashion-oriented clothing local firms, prevailing a type of industrial district where the dynamism of the economy depends on the hub firms located outside the local context [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The town of General Daniel Cerri to 15km from the city of Bahía Blanca has been a receptor space of group of migrations, first the arrived was of Europeans and from some decades the last big wave give position to the boundary countries, in our case of study specially Bolivia, similar situation to the rest of the country. The life's strategies of these groups are characterized for the need to survive to environmental, economic, ecological and socio-cultural adverse conditions. Daily, these families are mark for the outsider of the place in that acting. That outsider place is originated in the same community which been reserved for them the role of cheap labour for activities which the natives don't want to do. The aim of this paper is identify from the micro-social sigth, throw the use of qualitatives techniques, the strategies and practice that this people are forced to use diary to act like member of the area of study. The actions that we try are pieces of different contexts of the life's space. In this case we will try the relationship with other members of the community and with the compatriots throw the religioous practices, the look for and stability in the work and the major o minor entry into the formal education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last quarter of the 20th century intense changes took place in the macroeconomic conditions of Argentina. These transformations, based on the application of an economic policy contrary to the tenets of the welfare state and on a reshaping of the roles of the state, the market and society as a whole, deeply hindered the development of the local production. This article describes the main traits of Argentine economic policy between 1975 and 2005 and its impact on the dairy industry in the country as a whole and in La Pampa in particular taking into consideration a wide variety of sources which include not only statistical data and official information but also academic papers and reports published in national and local newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the factors that have influenced the savings behaviour in the Argentine economy. First, the correlations between saving and investment over time are analysed (the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle). Second, the paper investigates the causality in Granger sense between private national saving and real product in VAR models. The paper uses annual data during the 1970-2004 period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]