The extraction of oil and gas is one of Argentina’s main economic🧔 sectors, accounting for 8% of GDP and 2.5% of ex𝓰ports in 2019, as well as 1% of total employment at the end of that year. After a decade of underinvestment, the production of ...

2019 was a challenging period for the banking sector in Argentina. Starting in April 2018, an economic contraction unfolded, continuing throughout 2019, deteriorating business activity. A sharp devaluation of the Argentinꦍe peso and a jump in ...

In the past two decades, Latin America has embraced a universal health strategy, based on the principles of equity, so🦹lidarity and collective action. This strategy required steadily growing public expenditure on health in order to guarantee universal ...

Argentina has the third-largest ICT market in Latin America in terms of number of subscribers, behind only Brazil and Mexico.𝐆 By regional standards, the country also has high penetration rates in the main ICT services: mobile telepho🧜ny, fixed-line ...

At the end of 2018, Latin America an🌜d the Caribbean accounted for 19.2% of the w🦩orld’s crude oil reserves and for 4.3% of natural gas, making the region among the prominent players in the global oil and natural gas industry. However, a lack of ...

In 2018, Argentina was the third largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America with retail drug sales of USD 4.9bn. The country has a large and ageing population, a relatively developed public health system, and a small but consolidated privat൩e ...

In 2018, Latin America consolidate🀅d its position as one of the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing and export hubs for motor vehicles. Amidst the sharp downturn of both production and sales of motor vehicles in Europe, Asia and Oceania, Latin ...

Argentina is recognised worldwide as one of the major producers and exporters of food and beverages, ranking among the ten biggest produce☂rs of vegetable oils, soybean by-products, pasta and wine on a global scale. The food and beverage sector plays ...

Argentina has a leading position in the production and export of agricultural commodities, ranking among the w🐻orld’s ten biggest producers of soybean, maize, wheat, beef♎ and poultry meat. The agriculture sector plays a major role in ...

Motor vehicle production was one of the sectors most affected by the recession that began in Argentina in the second quarter of 2018. The deterioration of macroeconomic conditions in 2018 pushed down both the domes𓄧tic production and the sales of ...