Argentina’s 2019 budget: devil is in the detail

Argentina’s 2019 federal budget presented to Congress last night contains a large fiscal squeeze and, if implemented in full, would stabilise the public debt ratio. However, some key IMF requests have been sidestepped, and fiscal slippage is likely ahead of next year’s elections.

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