Argentina’s Economic Fluctuations and Reforms

Zirui Meng ()
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Zirui Meng: Ordos No. 1 Middle School in Inner Mongolia

A chapter in Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Hybrid Commerce, Human Capital, and Economic Dynamics (ICHCH 2025), 2026, pp 901-910 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Argentina’s economy is characterized by a diverse mix of agriculture, manufacturing, and services, with agriculture playing a pivotal role as a top global exporter of soybeans, corn, and beef. Historically marked by volatility—including high inflation, fiscal imbalances, and debt challenges—it has seen recent efforts under the Milei administration to stabilize finances, achieve fiscal surpluses, and curb inflation. The 2001 crisis was widely regarded as a total outbreak of contradictions between the monetary board system and expansionary fiscal policy, followed by the debt default in 2003, which became the largest sovereign default in Latin America. The Kirchner period (2003-2015) saw a recovery through a commodity boom, but Price’s (2017) study showed that its industrial policies failed to change the structural weakness of the dependence on commodity exports.Post-2015 policies have repeatedly highlighted institutional dilemmas: the market-oriented reforms of the Macri government (2015-2019) failed due to a lack of fiscal discipline, while the intervention policies of the Alberto Fernández government (2019-2023) had little effect in the wake of the pandemic. Milei’s election in 2023 marks a radical shift in policy paradigms, but its dollarization approach faces the practical constraints of the “triadian paradox.” Existing research highlights that the persistence of the Argentine crisis stems from three levels of failure: soft constraints on the fiscal system, lack of credibility in monetary policy, and bottlenecks in the ability to upgrade industries.

Keywords: Financial crisis; Revolution; Economic Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.2991/978-2-38476-585-0_102

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