Should we be worried about Argentina’s provincial debt?

Fears that the ‘pesofication’ of foreign currency debt by one Argentine province earlier this month will lead to a wave of local government defaults are overdone. Even so, the provinces face a funding squeeze in the coming years as slower economic growth weighs on transfers from the central government.

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