Country Strategy

Together, IDB staff and Argentina determine how Argentina’s priorities coincide with the Bank’s development strategies for the region. The product of that process is the IDB country strategy with Argentina, containing the Bank’s expected program for Argentina for 2010.

Country strategies include an overview of a country’s current economic situation. They draw on analytical work conducted by the Bank and other parties on a wide range of economic and social sectors, such as rural and urban development, health, education, government modernization, transportation, trade, and the environment, among others.

Argentina’s Operational Strategy (2004-2008)

The main objective of the Bank’s strategy for 2004-2008 is to help Argentina to achieve sustainable and more equitable growth.

The agreed strategy for 2004-2008 aims to focus the Bank’s activities on the following areas:

• Institutional strengthening, for better governance and fiscal sustainability, targeted to enhance legal certainty and technical skills for public administration;
• Creation of a more favorable climate for investment and productivity growth, to enhance the country’s competitiveness. A major goal will be to re-establish conditions for financing new private sector projects;
• Poverty reduction, through rebuilding the human resource base, and promotion of sustainable and inclusive social development, giving priority to activities that lead to crosscutting consolidation of social safety net programs.