The menemismo as Economic Policy: the Argentina "safe" in anchors

Authors

  • Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo Departamento de Fundamentos da Educação. Universidade Estadual de Maringá.
  • Afrânio Mendes Catani Faculdade de Educação; Programa Interunidades em Integração da América Latina. Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2003.81768

Keywords:

Política econômica, Política Social.

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the economic policy adopted by Carlos Saúl Menem governments
(1989-1999) in Argentina. By developing orthodox liberalism as a reference to economic policy, Menem supports
a free-market economy, especially with some measures: high-speed privatization process, reduction of imports
taxes, stressed fiscal and monetary adjustment, cutting of governmental subsidies, strengthening the tax system,
general desregulamentation of contracts, and encouraging labor precarization and flexibilization. Consequently,
newly privatized public services become expensive and lose quality, prompting a huge social and political crisis,
which ends with resignation of President Fernando De La Rúa in December 2001.

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Published

2003-12-01

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How to Cite

Azevedo, M. L. N. de, & Catani, A. M. (2003). The menemismo as Economic Policy: the Argentina "safe" in anchors. Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 2(3), 111-133. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2003.81768