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Argentina: ignoring the lessons from Venezuela?

Several high profile changes to Argentina's cabinet have reawakened speculation that the country is on the brink of formalising a multiple exchange rate system. If the experience of Venezuela is anything to go by, changes of this nature will do little to solve Argentina's dollar drought. Instead, the more likely outcome will be further arbitrage, inefficiency and corruption.

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