The Secretariat of Industry and Productive Development, headed by José Ignacio de Mendiguren, has launched a plan called “Argentina Productiva 2030”, whose main objective is to increase exports to more than US$ 180 billion.
The programme also includes other goals, such as reducing poverty by half, generating more than 3.5 million job positions, reducing unemployment to 5%, creating more than 100,000 companies and a per capita growth of 30% by 2030.
To achieve this, the national government proposes changing the productive matrix through 500 policy guidelines, including tax relief bills, lowering of withholding taxes and free access to foreign currency. They will seek to discuss it with the opposition to achieve consensus, given the proximity of the presidential elections.
Of the U$S 180,000 million in exports projected for the next 7 years, the agro-industrial sector is expected to continue contributing.
The agro industrial sector is expected to contribute the largest amount of foreign currency, U$S 60,931 million approximately, although it will be the one with the lowest growth, partly due to the fact that commodity prices are expected to fall.
The energy sector is expected to see the greatest growth in exports, with Vaca Muerta (U$S 60,931 million) and LNG (U$S 30,806 million); the services, knowledge and tourism sectors (U$S 22,150 million) and mining sector, with lithium, copper and potassium (U$S 15,931 million).
The document, which is more than 3,000 pages, was presented by Daniel Schteingart, Coordinator of the Plan Argentina Plan Argentina Productiva 2030.
“Without stabilization, it is difficult to invest and grow, but also changing and generating the matrix and creating foreign exchange, helps stabilization. Stabilization is a dog that bites its own tail,” he said.
He added that “we need the approval of pending bills, some of them have not been brought to Congress, and others are in the pipeline: the electromobility, agro-industrial and large investment laws.
The programme is based on 11 missions, including: doubling exports; developing the green economy for the environmental transition; producing more goods and services linked to health; boosting the mobility of the future with national technologies; strengthening national security, based on national high-tech developments; adapting food production; deepening the moving forward of digitalization and the mining potential with care for the environment, among others.
However, De Mendiguren admitted the difficulties of implementing the plan, due to the lack of dialogue with the opposition and internal agreement among the Frente de Todos coalition itself. “We are ready for the laws to come out or, if not, we will implement them in some way. Due to the lack of dollars, this year’s plan is to obtain foreign currency from Brazil and China, and to assist the agricultural sector,” he concluded.
SOURCE: prensa-energetica.com