The gesture of moving up the ranks of the area and appointing Escobar’s former mayor, Ariel Sujarchuk, a man of close confidence to Massa, reveals the importance assigned by the Minister of Economy to the sector. This is explained, fundamentally, by the ability to start up what the Palacio de Hacienda dubbed the “dollar factory”. In terms of foreign exchange generation, the Knowledge Economy is now in third place. In 2021, it brought the country more than $6.4 billion.
To enhance this capacity in the short term, the Government is analyzing a benefit focused on incremental exports. That is, for all those firms that sell more abroad than in 2021. Although there are several drafts that are still under study, the specific tool would be to enable a differential settlement for those extra dollars that come in. The price would be similar to the one that operates today on the stock market.
At the same time, the Knowledge Economy Law continues to be in force, allowing companies to access tax bonuses, which in practice also end up improving their export competitiveness. There are also a series of plans that are being developed to set up companies in this sector in the different provinces and diversify the demand for personnel that today is concentrated, and practically exhausted, in the big cities, mainly in the AMBA.
In his inaugural conference, the new minister had already anticipated that special regimes will be implemented for export sectors, such as the knowledge economy, agribusiness, mining and hydrocarbons. As Ámbito learned, Sujarchuk received firm representatives in the last few hours to fine-tune details of the measure. He still has a series of meetings scheduled for next week.
The announcement will be finished with the rest of the economic team, but it is expected that it will materialize in the coming days. This is what the foreign exchange urgency warrants. Yesterday, the Central Bank cut a streak of ten consecutive rounds of sales and bought some US$15 million. In any case, in that period it lost about US $ 1,000 million.
Another of the axes of management will be the formation of human capital, perhaps the main competitive differential that Argentina has today compared to other countries in the region. They aim to train some 70,000 programmers for free. They will do so by accelerating the “Argentina Program” plan that the Government launched last year. “We not only have to aim to recover the dollars but also enhance knowledge and generate human capital,” Sujarchuk said in dialogue with Radio 10.
Source: Ambito
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