IMF praises Argentina’s ‘progress’ but says growth should be better ‘distributed’

Fresh off the heels of a new technical mission in Argentina, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) once again backed President Javier Milei’s economic plan while also acknowledging the need for economic growth to expand beyond agriculture, mining, and energy. Argentina has made “significant progress in restoring macroeconomic stability in a very challenging environment of what had been high debt and also what had been very high inflation,” IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack said Thursday at her weekly press conference. Kozack highlighted the slowdown in inflation since the libertarian government…