Understanding Global Issues

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Crying for Argentina: The impoverishment of a nation

As crime and poverty spread and children in rural provinces begin to starve, polls in 2002 showed that a third of Argentines wanted to emigrate. The disaster which has struck Argentina in the last few years is truly terrible. How it came about is a complex story, mixing history, corruption, poor leadership and pressure from international finance. As yet another new government seeks to put things right, we examine the background to contemporary Argentina.

Published: April 2003 ISBN: 0850487587

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