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SANZ CERBINO, Gonzalo; BIL, Damián  y  SARTELLI, Eduardo. The relationship between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund in the framework of the 2018 agreement. E&c [online]. 2025, vol.1, n.20, pp.59-80. ISSN 2477-9245.  https://doi.org/10.37228/estado_comunes.v1.n20.2025.364.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Argentine State have maintained a close and constant relationship since 1957, especially, in times of economic crisis. This article studies the last financial assistance the country received from the international organization in 2018, debt renegotiated between 2022-2023. Using official data, recent bibliography and press releases, the findings suggest from a historical and sociological approach that the economic and social problems that affect the country in a cyclical manner, are not the result of its relationship with the IMF, but rather, of the inability of the business class and political authorities to exercise control over its economic policy. Indebtedness is a mechanism that compensates for the productive backwardness of the economy, hyperinflation and Argentina's seventy-year fiscal deficit.

Palabras clave : international agreements; business class; fiscal deficit; International Monetary Fund; Argentine policy; foreign policy; loans and indebtedness.

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