That is pretty much head in the sand stuff too matias...Argentina can have a big internal model of corruption, inefficiency and poor quality products or it can open up, face the world and focus on quality. The current model is no longer functional, it is unsustainable over the long term. They must face the world, remove protectionism and reach out to the international community wuth some attempt at debt negotiation.
i really dont see your point. I explain mine: during the 70s and the 90s there were in both periods "apertura comercial" laws, which were, basically, the elimination of any kind of protectionism, a big opening of our frontiers to products from around the globe. In the 70s, were the videocasseteras, VHS players, and color tvs, the paradigma, and also the "made in taiwan" radios, and in the 90s were all these kind of coloring things you see on the street, in Once, watches, calculators, walkmans, lots of electronic stuff that you could buy it very cheap since peso=dollar. What that that did to argentine economy? basically, since those were more competitive (internationally) than argentine industry IT DESTROYED ARGENTINE INDUSTRY, it destroyed argentine quality jobs, it destroyed the national production, and of course werent only watches, it were cars, fridges, ovens, clothes (you can stll find people on the street selling socks and underware), everything.
It was not a complex net of heavy industry (although in the 90s the Fabrica Militar de Aviones closed) but it was an extended industrial and productive fabric.
Thats one of the causes of the + 25% of unemployment, and the exponential growth of informal job and cuentapropismo.
On the other hand, this current government has an opposite direction, it have chosen the direction of re industrialize the country, although they surely talk more than they do, they have re opened the Fabrica Militar de Aviones, re activated the car industry, protect national industry from outside competition -if this is good or not is a matter of discussion, the bottom line is that I dont think that discipline and competition is good, but what happen is that the bigger fish eats the small one, the concentration of wealth in other words, a social problem of the 90s till today. And of course if you protect argentine job and not expose it to better competitors, and if you subisdize your productive nods, triplicate the investment on education, and you stimulate the pymes, then you can grow for 10 years, you can have 7% of unemployment, you can have houndreds of thousands of people getting out of the poverty, expand your middle class.
You know how kioscos are that common? those were pymes (symbol of argentine middle class) that closed! Or even when the privatization of Ypf, an enormous enterprize, that fired thousands of people that put their casa de empanadas, etc, that is cuentapropismo, or even informal job! theres a overpopulation of taxis too!! that is where this formerly prosperous middle class ended!! those people once had a job, not informal, regular, with pension, etc, they all dissappeared in the 90s. And today we are still paying that, today we still have 30-35% of informal job (unacceptable for Argentina but one of the best of Latin America), today we still have a lot of poverty, today we still have not recovered that industrial factor.
