The Secretary of Productive Development approached the Sheraton Hotel to show the Government’s position. He brought a folder with details of the economic indicators and investment projects of the firms participating in the event.
Although he is not an active part of any of the planned panels, the industrial man from Sergio Massa’s team decided to attend the Colloquium to give the debate.
The Secretary of Productive Development, José Ignacio de Mendiguren, arrived in Mar del Plata on Friday to walk through the hallways of the Sheraton hotel where the number one edition is taking place. 59th IDEA Colloquium. He is the first government official outside the president Alberto Fernandez approaching the annual business meeting. He did so with an extensive folder that has details of the main economic indicators but also investment projects of firms participating in the event.
Although he is not an active part of any of the planned panels, the industrial man from Sergio Massa’s team decided to attend the Colloquium to give the debate. “Fact kills story”, Vasco told this medium. Thus he began to detail a list of economic indicators that reflect a growth in registered private employment of more than 376 thousand positions with 33 consecutive months of rebound to all those who came to talk to him.
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The document to which you had access Ambit It also details a 10.4% rebound in industrial activity and a 5.4 percentage point jump in investment: “In the first half of 2023, the investment rate over GDP reached 18.9%, which is the highest in the last 15 years for a semester,” says the text that accompanied De Mendiguren throughout the morning.
The Treasury Palace official’s folder also includes a detail of the investment projects in the country of the firms participating in the event. “I am going to discuss it one on one with them, because this is the reality of Argentina, companies that grow and invest because there is an industrial project,” said the Secretary.
That list includes firms such as Exar and Livent, from the mining sector, Tecpetrol and PAE, from the Petrochemical sector, and also others prominent in the knowledge economy, such as Globant, which is promoting a project of more than US$1,000 million in the country. It also includes the main automotive companies: Ford, Toyota, VW, Scani, Honda, Nissan and Peugeot, among others.
De Mendiguren was the only high-ranking national government official outside the President who approached IDEA. Sergio Massa decided several days ago not to be in the game; finally Bullrich was the only presidential candidate to exhibit at the Sheraton. For the closing day of the Colloquium, Vice Minister Gabriel Rubinstein was expected at an economic panel, but in the end he did not pass through Mar del Plata.
Source: Ambito
