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Argentine austerity drive a first step on long road ahead

Having already hit the IMF’s primary deficit target for this year, Argentine policymakers have made impressive progress on fiscal tightening. But the squeeze so far accounts for only a third of the total effort requested by the IMF over the course of the bailout. Austerity will be particularly difficult to sustain ahead of October’s elections.

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