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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]

This paper analyzes the accumulation model and hegemonic disputes that took place under the first administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. First, this article examines some core structural elements that shaped transformations and tension at the model level: industrial performance, the energy crisis, changes in the world of finance, and the status of subordinated classes. Subsequently, this paper looks at three key moments in the political dynamics of the economic policy: tax withholdings and the agrarian conflict, the launch of the national plan to confront the global crisis, and the progressivist radicalization of public policy. The questions guiding this work are as follows: what are the characteristics of the accumulation model? How are the hegemonic disputes tied to the performance of the model in Argentina between 2008 and 2011?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the final stage of Import Substitution Industrialization in Argentina, which took place between 1960 and 1975. We present, on the one hand, the gains and structural constraints of this process and, on the other, we retrieve some economic policy ideas and definitions that sought to address these constraints. In the first case, we highlight the positive evolution of some aspects (such as manufacture exports, changes in the internal composition of the sector and the development of large projects in basic industry) that inform about the maturation of the industrial process. Regarding the ideas, we analyze how the intellectual contributions and debates reveal a relative consensus around the need to strengthen the industrial presence in external markets and thus overcome the traditional substitution strategy identified with the original proposals of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC). [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]

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]

This paper is part of an investigation program related to accounting information on Public Sector tax revenues. Nowadays, public microaccounting in Argentina is facing problems in order to modify criteria regarding tax revenues time of recording, trying to move from cash basis to full accrual. Although the author recognizes differences between Macro and Microaccounting. He also considers that both areas may profit from concepts developed by the other field. In its final part the paper includes, after a theoretical review, a numeric example to analyse differences among three "time of recording" alternatives: 1) when the taxation event occurs (full accrual basis) 2) due for payment 3) cash basis. The aim of the article is to participate in the discussion process among Argentina's Public Microaccounting experts in order to provide better information for the Public Sector and the Civil Society about revenues that amounts more than one third of the Argentinian GDP [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an article published in 1972, Núñez Miñana presented a research about the measuring of indicators of relative territorial development levels in Argentina. The classification of the provinces that emerged from that working paper was generally accepted and lasted until our days with great validity. The present working paper does not pretend in any way to cast doubts on the results of the mentioned article, but, on the contrary, to verify and confirm the validity of the traditional classification. To that end, a cluster analysis is carried out using, in the first place, the original data of the article. After that, the process is repeated with updated data. We conclude that the traditional classification is not too different from the one that was reached with the cluster analysis. However, more than 30 years later, there have been major changes in the relative reality of the provinces which led to changes in the traditional classification, although not substantial ones. [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]

The paper focuses on public management concerning collective incidence environmental damages derived from oil spills and, based on a legal dogmatic vision, the objective is to identify the main weaknesses of the Argentine legal-institutional system in terms of restoration of those damages and to examine whether taxation on petroleum and its derivatives may constitute an appropriate measure to ensure the environmental restoration, defining the way to implement this measure in the Argentine Law. As a result, we propose two changes on the Tax on Liquid Fuels and Natural Gas of Argentina (chargeable event and tax burden) and complementary measures involving joint implementation of educational tools to make aware the population about ecological damages derived from oil spills and to report on the specific application of public funds to face them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to explore and analyze the main argument put forward by the argentine catholic business leaders, institutionalized in the Christian Association of Business Leaders (ACDE), during the period of crisis and out of the convertibility regime (1999-2003). We will study not only Institutional productions, also individual interventions and of the certain subgroups working in the institution and hold a strong authority for members. We will focus on the reaction of argentine catholic business leaders to the warnings of catholic ecclesiastical sectors on the social consequences of neoliberal. However, we'll demonstrate that there were non-business actors inside the network of ACDE which became the main representation of the institutional position and, therefore, advocates of self-regulation of markets and the shoulder of the role of the state in economy. Indeed, stakeholders from the clergy led the theological justification of defense of neoliberalism, with the most radical sectors of the entrepreneurship. After presenting the main arguments, we'll bring a number of findings related to the study of the different activities carried out by ACDE in the period ACDE, shared places and actors of business, politician and academic fields that were part of his network. In the conclusions, we will seek to reflect on the role that these elements may be in the process of subjective construction and attachment to a particular political-economic ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the internal dynamic behaviour of the growth rate of gross national product of Argentina in the period 1991-2006, considering the possible disaggregated by sectors and provinces. For this purpose, it analyzes the empirical distribution of growth according to each breakdown and specifies an econometric model based on Markov chains, estimating transition probabilities matrixes between sectors and regions. It concludes that while there is greater stability or persistence for both breakdowns regarding the extreme ranges of variation of growth rate, in general there is a high mobility, and even more in the ergodic or steady state trend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to show that the problem is not in the model itself but in the mismanagement of the prescribed policies. Despite their different social and economical structures, Argentina and Peru faced similar problems during the same period (1990-2000): a hyperinflation in the beginning and an institutional crisis at the end. After several years of economic recovery, Argentina faced a big political and economic crisis and after blaming to the so-called «neoliberal policy», reverses her policy. Actually Peru has better perspectives and Argentina has a collapse in perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The productive exploitation of the "territorial near west" since the end of the nineteenth century was based on the natural supply according to the priority bestowed by the prevailing development model, within the framework of the insertion of the Argentine Republic in the international division of labour. This paper determines the production cycles defined from the use and transformation of the ecosystems (pasture, forest extraction) or their substitution by farming, and holds the hypothesis that the former was limited with regard to the process of exploitation and plundering to which it was subjected. Overloading the fields with livestock, as if they were the rich grasslands of the province of Buenos Aires, agricultural practices and deforestation caused, within a few years, soil exhaustion and erosion resulting from trampling and dryness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the impact of the economic reform process on Argentina's economic growth, especially in a period related to the national development model. The long-term effects are reviewed using co-integration analysis, while the short-term effects are studied by employing an error-correction model, which is also used to explore the impact of technological improvement on growth. The econometric analysis presented involves the strictest empirical and methodological rigor, thus ensuring the robustness of the study carried out. The main findings will indicate a negative effect from the evolution of Argentina's economic reforms to potential growth. [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]