Austerity Programs in Argentina and the Structural Continuity of Extractivism: A Feminist Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-138
Author(s):  
Patricia Laterra ◽  
María Julia Eliosoff ◽  
Agostina Costantino
Keyword(s):  
Pension Reform ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Fiscal Deficit ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Capital Liberalization ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Mode Of Development

The government that took office in Argentina in December 2015 shaped a mode of development oriented toward finance and extractivism, trade and capital liberalization, and austerity policies. One of the main goals was to reduce the fiscal deficit and to lower domestic production costs in order to increase international competitiveness. Many measures implemented, such as the pension reform of 2017, budget cuts in gender-sensitive areas, and the change in the nature of social policies, had a differential impact on women and LGBT people when compared to men. However, beyond the measures taken by a particular government, the characteristics of extractivism and land concentration are structural dimensions with profound biases in their impacts in terms of gender.

scholarly journals El sesgo de género en la política de austeridad de Argentina, 2015-2019. Una mirada desde la Economía Feminista

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-37
Author(s):  
Patricia Laterra ◽  
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María Julia Eliosoff ◽  
Agostina Costantino ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Pension Reform ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Fiscal Deficit ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Capital Liberalization ◽  
The World ◽  
National Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Mode Of Development

The government that took office in Argentina in December 2015 configures a mode of development oriented to finance and extractivism, trade and capital liberalization and austerity policies. It looked to reduce the fiscal deficit and lower national production costs in order to increase intenational competitiveness. So, a series of measures were carried out that negatively impacted on women and LGBT people. The pension reform of 2017, the dynamics in the world of work, budget cuts in gender-sensitive areas and the change in the nature of social policies are some of the examples that we analyze in this paper. The objective is to analyze the incidence that this austerity program had on women and, where it can be analyzed, on LGBT people in Argentina.

Argentina reforms advance but carry political cost

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Fiscal Deficit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pension Reforms ◽  
Debt Default ◽  
Political Cost ◽  
The Government

Significance Following its strong results in the October mid-term election, the government has been pressing tax and pension reforms and a new fiscal accord with provincial governors; all except the pension reform must now go to the Senate. The measures may ease investor concerns that the government’s inability to reduce the fiscal deficit could end in a new debt default. Impacts The tax reform’s effect on high tax pressure will be moderate at best. Provinces’ ability to reduce distortive taxes will depend on their ability to cut public spending. Changes to the pension system will prove especially conflictive politically.

Mexican government to reinforce fiscal tightening

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Fiscal Deficit ◽  
International Capital ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
International Capital Markets ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
Primary Surplus

Significance A substantial fiscal tightening is being proposed, with the government seeking to reduce its fiscal deficit significantly and attain its first primary surplus since 2008. Impacts Heavy budget cuts will increase Pena Nieto's unpopularity. Pena Nieto is unlikely to achieve the close working relationship with Meade that he had with Videgaray. The fiscal adjustment will be tested when the government goes to the international capital markets to issue debt from January.

Graubündens Wald im Fokus | Focus on the Grisons forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Form Part ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

scholarly journals The Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Location of Pollution-Intensive Industries in China under Agglomeration Effect

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4045
Author(s):  
Yinhao Wu ◽  
Shumin Yu ◽  
Xiangdong Duan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Agglomeration Effect ◽  
The Government ◽  
Pollutant Discharge ◽  
The Impact

Pollution-intensive industries (PIIs) have both scale effect and environmental sensitivity. Therefore, this paper studies how environmental regulation (ER) affects the location dynamics of PIIs under the agglomeration effect. Our results show that, ER can increase the production costs of pollution-intensive firms (PIFs) by internalizing the negative impact of pollutant discharge in a region, and thus, directly reduces the region’s attractiveness to PIFs. Meanwhile, ER can indirectly reduce the attractiveness of a region to PIFs by reducing the externality of the regional agglomeration effect. Moreover, these influences are regulated by the level of local economic development. Based on the moderated mediating effect model, we find evidence from the site selection activities of newly built chemical firms in cities across China. The empirical test shows that compared with 2014, the proportion of the direct effect of ER to the total effects significantly decreased in 2018, while the proportion of indirect effects under the agglomeration effect increased significantly. Our findings provide reference for the government to design effective environmental policies to guide the location choice of new PIFs.

scholarly journals SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT MINIMUM EXPENDITURE AND WAGE EXPENDITURE IN THE SIMULTANEOUS INDUSTRIAL SECTOR MODEL OF DKI JAKARTA PROVINCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Freddy Wangke
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
The Government ◽  
Simultaneous Model

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of increasing expenditure and increasing the minimum wage of the government in the simultaneous model of the industrial sector of DKI Jakarta province. The estimation model in the simultaneous model of the industrial sector of DKI province uses the 2 SLS (Two-Stage Least Squares) method. The simulation results of a 10% increase in the expenditure of the provincial government of DKI has resulted in an increase of investment of 4.72%, production growth of 0.19%, employment of 0.17%, an increase in production costs by 0.24%, and company profits increased by 0.10%. On the other hand, the simulation results of a 10% increase in the provincial minimum wage has resulted in a decrease in labor absorption by 0.55%, a decrease in production in the industrial sector has resulted in 0.21%, a decrease in investment by 0.07%, and a decrease in production costs by 0.04%.

The Contribution of Information Science through Intellectual Property to Innovation in the Brazilian Health Sector

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelaide Maria de Souza Antunes ◽  
Flavia Maria Lins Mendes ◽  
Suzanne de Oliveira Rodrigues Schumacher ◽  
Luc Quoniam ◽  
Jorge Lima de Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Notable Feature ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Government

In response to the challenges of the 21st century, emerging countries have played an increasingly leading role in the global economy, and public health has been a notable feature of the government agendas in these countries. According to the IMF, Brazil is one of the countries with the greatest potential to stand out in this context. The quantity of research and development into technologies for drugs and medications is important for supporting innovation in the health sector. Information science can therefore help considerably in the analysis of patents, indicating trends, revealing opportunities for investors, and assisting the decision-taking process by private sector managers and government agents. This study is based on the extraction of valuable information contained in the hidden Web through technology foresight of products deemed strategic by the Brazilian Ministry of Heath, which are the target of public policies and investments by the state for domestic production.

The “Government of the Sertões and Indians”

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-39
Author(s):  
Rafael Chambouleyron
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Domestic Production ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sugar Plantations ◽  
The Government

AbstractThis article discusses the role played by the production of sugar and cane liquor (aguardente) in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Amazon region. It shows how the development of sugar production had a double significance: sugar plantations had to produce a commodity that could be exported so as to generate revenues for the Royal Treasury, but they also had to produce aguardente for domestic consumption (including by those Indians who worked for the Portuguese). This domestic production provoked distrust on the part of the Crown, since it was believed to threaten sugar production overall. Nevertheless, aguardente production became a central element in the Portuguese dominion of the sertões (or sertão, the hinterland), while continuing to increase the revenues of the royal treasury.

scholarly journals You Win Some, You Lose Some: Pension Reform in Bachelet’s First and Second Administrations

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Borzutzky
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Presidential Power ◽  
Pension Policy ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Government Coalition

This article analyses and compares President Bachelet’s successful efforts to reform the Chilean pension system in 2008 and her failure to achieve the same objective in 2017. The article addresses the impact of electoral promises, policy legacies, policy ideology, presidential power, the role of the private sector, and the role that the government coalitions had in the process of pension reform during the Bachelet administrations. We argue that the 2008 reform was possible because of Bachelet’s personal commitment to reform and the presence of a stable governing coalition that had the will and capacity to legislate. In the second administration, although the policy legacies and ideology had remained the same, the reform did not materialise due to intense conflict within the administration and within the government coalition, as well as conflict between the administration and the coalition. These conflicts, in turn, generated a vicious cycle responsible for Bachelet’s declining popularity, limited political capital, and reduced support for reform. A stagnant economy further undermined these efforts. In brief, this article argues that when assessing success and failure in pension policy reform it is important to analyse not only policy legacies and political ideology but also the strength of the executive, the cohesion of the governing coalition, and the country’s economic performance.

Producing dynamic growth is the task ahead

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Sachs
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Flexible Labor ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Export Industries

The first stage of transition in the Czech Republic is over. This country has a market economy and it is working. The second stage of transformation is the rapid catch-up with Western Europe. The main steps may be following: The first involves macro-economic policies, especially exchange rate policy. Exchange rate policy should be managed consistently to protect the competitiveness of export industries. The second item is tax policy. The government spending should be compatible with the level of development and the level of income - it should be in the order of 25 - 30 %. Pension reform. Flexible labor markets. Market access. Infrastructure. Transport, communications.

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