He Ministry of Human Capital has published its management balance sheet two years after Javier Milei took office and highlighted a series of results that the portfolio led by Sandra Petovello grouped into three guiding ideas: order, efficiency and social peace.
The publication distributed through the Agency’s networks balanced performance of the area with reference to Tax savings, conflict reduction and linkage with the private sectorthree dimensions that, according to the government, expressed the ideological importance of the ministry created in December 2023.
The figure of Sandra Pettovello experienced its period of greatest public attention in 2024, when several controversies – from the withholding of food in official warehouses to a series of internal resignations – criticism has been concentrated from the opposition and social organizations. At that time, judicial investigations discovered irregularities in inventory, shortages, inventory errors and alleged incorrect staffing.
However, These episodes were left in 2025 in light of other scandals with a high political impact, such as the Libra matter and the irregularities at ANDIS, which pushed human capital away from the center of the debate. Even so, Pettovello continued to be one of the officials the president most defendedwho declared at the time: “When an honest person comes to put an end to corruption, the corrupt come out in droves.”
In this context, the ministry today a Summary of indicators whom he wanted to use as representatives of his management. Among other things, human capital highlighted the impact of various programs on the budget. According to the official result, the “Zero Rent” program generated savings of $1,384,277,573, a figure that the portfolio boasted as an example of administrative efficiency.
This line exists alongside other initiatives aimed at achieving this Expenditure organizationsuch as purging irregular cooperatives and mutuals, dismantling ReNaCOM and exposing subsidies given without accountability.
However, the lecture did not focus exclusively on tax issues. One of the blocs most emphasized by the government was the Labor conflict. Human capital highlighted that the industrial conflict index was achieved the lowest level in two decadeswhile the education sector began the 2025 school year without union action. For the portfolio, this scenario expressed a kind of “social peace,” a definition that the executive linked to the elimination of intermediaries in social programs, direct coordination with beneficiaries, and a realignment of incentives throughout the aid program.
Another one of the axes was Relationship to the private world. The portfolio highlighted the integration of 17,000 workers into companies Alliances with Mercado Libre and Arcos Doradoswith the promise of creating more than 10,000 jobs. The official narrative was that these initiatives strengthened the link between vocational training, employability and business dynamism.
For the Ministry, this model corresponds to the conceptual definition from which the territory emerged: Function as a kind of “state human resources department”with a logic anchored in performance management, reducing friction and aligning productive needs with public policies.
This look is also recovering the historical development of the concept of “human resources” towards the concept of “human capital”. Originating in the private sector, the term evolved from describing administrative tasks (recruitment, payroll, specific training) to expressing a strategic asset whose function is to maximize the development, productivity and employability of people within an organization. The government interpreted this idea as a valid platform for shaping public policies and elevated her to ministerial rankin an unprecedented movement on a global scale, according to the official score itself: the “creation of the world’s first Ministry of Human Capital.”
In educationThe portfolio included advancements in literacy, scholarships, education vouchers, assessment (Test Learn), and curriculum renewal with new content in mathematics, financial literacy, socio-emotional skills, and artificial intelligence. He also listed milestones such as the establishment of the Leonor Acevedo de Borges Center, the PAIDEIA program, the integration of chess and the game GO in schools, and the holding of the National Literacy Congress for Supervisors.
In matters Childhood and familyhighlighted the expansion of food benefit (+137.5%), the 100% increase in general child benefit, the inclusion of 600,000 young people in the AUH, the 500% increase in early childhood scholarships and the 1,100% increase in the benefit for the first 1000 days. He also referred to the implementation of line 134 for complaints of coercion during demonstrations, line 102 for the prevention of child violence and the designation of ReNaCOM beneficiaries after the dissolution.
In it economic and social levelHuman Capital said poverty was at 31.6%, “the lowest level in seven years,” and asserted that real average salaries had risen above inflation. In addition, he mentioned the “depoliticization of public buildings”, the creation of the integrated social information system, the promotion of formal employment and the “first place in the transparency ranking”, according to the National Directorate for the Evaluation of Transparency Policy.
The balance sheet published by Capital Humano thus showed a official narrative based on taxation, social stability and coordination with the private sector. In this combination, the portfolio sought to embed its two-year performance in a business logic applied to the state: efficiency, control, incentives and measurable results. The government presented this vision not only as an administrative tool, but as the ideological core of the project that, since 2023, has sought to reshape the relationship between social policy, productivity and the labor market.
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