* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released the latest figures for the consumer price index (IPC), according to which monthly inflation grew 3.7% in December 2019, slowing slightly after November recorded monthly inflation of 4.3%. Annual inflation stood at 53.8% in December 2019, up from 47.6% at the close of 2018. The 2019 result is the highest yearly inflation figure since 1991. President
Alberto Fernández, who took office on 10 December 2019, now faces the challenge of implementing economic reforms which will successfully contain Argentina’s soaring inflation, something which his predecessor
Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) failed to do.
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