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POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC DESCRIPTION

Argentina occupies most of the southern wedge of the South American continent. Chile occupies a portion of the wedge to the west of the Andes Mountains. Argentina's contiguous neighbors are Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The country's topography ranges from high mountains to heavily wooded plains to fertile and virtually treeless Pampas to an arid plain in the far south. Argentina is the second largest country (in terms of both geography and population) in South America. The country's geographic area is twice that of the largest (geographically) American stateAlaska, while its population is 25 percent greater than that of the largest (population) American stateCalifornia (Paxton, 1990).

Several military coup d'etats occurred between 1955 and 1973. During that 18 year time period, the country had nine

1 2different presidents. In 1973, Juan Peron once again became president of Argentina. Following his death, he was succeeded by his second wife, Isabella, who was herself deposed in 1976. The one lasting and recognized positive factor related to the

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nd Tucumanthe economy is as industrialized, and as capitalintensive as any in the world. In rural areas, however, a labor intensive economy continues to prevail. In smaller cities and towns, some mix of capital intensive and labor intensive economic activities is found. The structure of production for Argentina is compared with the industrial market economy average in Exhibit 1, which may be found on the following page, while the demand structure in 4Argentina is compared with the industrial market economy average in Exhibit 2, which may be found on page 5. Beginning with the Austral Plan in mid1985, successive Argentine governments have implemented several economic stabilization plans in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund. Each of the plans achieved some initial successes, but eventually failed. The most recent plan, implemented by the Exhibit 1 Structure of Production: A Comparison of Argentina with the Average for the Western Industrial Market Economies =============================================================== Services Argentina ((((((((((( Industrial Market Average ((((((((((((((( Manufacturing Argentina (((((((((( Industrial Market Average (
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