- The measure the government should prioritize yes or yes in 2026, according to Melkonian: “We must take advantage of this opportunity.”
Economic Carlos Melkonian Evaluation of the economic situation in Argentina and The idea of moving towards dollarizationone of the election campaign promises Javier Miley In 2023. In addition, he shared his opinion on What should be the priority in your view for the government in 2026?.
In dialogue by Radio Rivadaviathe former president of Banco Nación categorically ruled out A Dollarization scheme In the short term it was considered so “The possibility of going to organized dollarization in Argentina is negative ten.”.
Melkonian confirmed this The president’s real success lies in the recovery of the peso, not in dollarization.
He explained: “We can only resort to dollarization in a state of chaos, unless they tell me that the United States wants to make Latin America a European Union.”
The measure the government should prioritize yes or yes in 2026, according to Melkonian: “We must take advantage of this opportunity.”
For the economist, Argentina “has the means” to stabilize the economy with its own currency. In this context, he pointed out What are the government’s priorities in the coming year?.
According to the former official, the government should next year “Find the balance between Inflation rate and activity level. “It has to move forward without any shame. It was not written that it has to reach single-digit annual inflation in 2026. It cannot do that with three-quarters of the country under water.”
On the other hand, he highlighted the importance of the reforms promoted by the government in the economic field Work, pensions and taxes, He believed that “none of them constitutes an alternative to reformulating macroeconomic policy.”
“No reform, neither work, nor pensions, nor tax, can replace the reformulation of macroeconomic policy. Nothing replaces the accumulation of reserves, competitiveness, resumption of credit, and monetization of the economy. He stressed that all these events are not related to structural reforms.
“Structural reforms are very beneficial and become virtuous in the growth process that has already begun, rather than the other way around,” he noted. “They in themselves are not the factor that stimulates growth.” He stressed that the factor that stimulates growth is the stabilization program.
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