Deputy Economy Minister Gabriel Rubinstein is dealing with the comprehensive economic plan that will be presented in the coming days by the head of the Finance Palace, Sergio Massa, and which in turn, will be discussed with the International Monetary Fund. The official will join the delegation that will travel to Washington, in the run-up to the tour that will be undertaken next week to the United States by the head of the Economy portfolio to attract investments and foreign exchange. Rubinstein will travel to the US capital “a few days before” the minister, with his team’s chief adviser, Leonardo Madcur; the director of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), Marco Lavagna, and the Secretary of Finance, Raúl Rigo, told Télam official sources. Another of the officials who plans to participate in the meetings is Lisandro Cleri, who was formally appointed, last Friday, as director of the Bank Central.La visit of the officials will focus on the technical meetings with the staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the current program with the organization, before the meeting that Massa will hold with Kristalina Georgieva, scheduled for Monday, September 12, according to the tentative agenda that Massa will carry out in the United States. Within Massa’s rich agenda in Washington, meetings are planned with high regional authorities of the Treasury and the White House, with businessmen and investors with interests in the country, with the Vice President of Operations of the World Bank, Axel van Trotsenburg; and with the head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, among others.
“The central axis of the trip will be the attraction of investments in sectors of the real economy, with the purpose of generating jobs and tax revenues,” said sources close to the minister.
In the meeting with Georgieva, the head of the Palace of Finance will face the formal start of the second review and will analyze the fulfillment of the goals of the agreement with the IMF and possible reformulations due to the unfavorable world context due to the war in Ukraine.In turn, Massa will launch in Washington together with the Minister of Tourism, Matías Lammens, “a program to promote inbound tourism that will remain in the hands of the official Improtur program, which aims at the generation of foreign exchange,” the sources added. On the other hand, the Minister of Economy will hold talks with about twenty U.S. companies that currently have investments in Argentina, within the framework of a meeting coordinated by the US Chamber of Commerce and the Argentine Embassy.In addition to meetings with companies and organizations in search of shoring up the real economy and bringing foreign currency, the head of the Treasury Palace will also hold meetings with officials and personalities of high political level of the United States for the region, including Juan González, President Joe Biden’s advisor for Latin America at the National Security Council; Jack Rosen, head of the World Jewish Congress; Dina Siegel Vann, Director of the American Jewish Committee; in the city of Houston, belonging to the state of Texas, Massa will meet with the directors of the main oil and mining firms that operate in the country, with the aim of accelerating investments, especially in lithium. There the Minister of Economy will be accompanied by the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royón, and the heads of Enarsa, Agustín Gerez, and YPF, Pablo González. The meetings scheduled are with the mining firms Livent and Rio Tinto, and the oil companies Chevron, Shell, Exxon and Total, among other companies.” The mission aims to consolidate support in the United States for the stabilization of the Argentine economy and strengthen reserves through more markets for national exports, more productive investments in strategic sectors such as energy, gas, agribusiness, proteins, knowledge-based services, minority and more foreign exchange income from receptive tourism,” the sources stressed.
