Argentine

This chapter discusses the need to assess people’s well-being at the regional and local level and the importance of well-being metrics in improving the impact of well-being policies. It also introduces the multidimensional framework the OECD has developed to measure well-being in regions and cities. It then discusses roles and responsibilities of the province of Córdoba in well-being policies, the resources the province devotes to fulfil those responsibilities and the province’s institutional capacity to develop metrics that will help make its well-being policies more effective and efficient. Lastly, it explains the process of developing a well-being indicator framework in Córdoba.

This chapter looks at how well-being indicators can be used to improve regional development in the province of Córdoba. In particular, it presents policy recommendations in three key areas of action: i) ensure that well-being indicators guide future decision-making, ii) continue strengthening and modernising the provincial statistical system to expand the evidence-base and, iii) strengthen governance arrangements for more effective, efficient and inclusive regional development policy outcomes.

Web servers by domain, July 2008 appears in OECD Communications Outlook 2009.

This chapter provides an overview of the current development and performance of water and sanitation services in Argentina, and zooms in the legal, institutional and regulatory frameworks of the sector. It describes how regulatory functions and responsibilities are allocated across different levels of government. It identifies key governance and regulatory challenges that the sector faces. It then discusses how to improve water and sanitation services governance, as well as the delivery of regulatory functions, tools and incentives.

This chapter assess water resources governance at different levels, including international, national, basin, provincial and metropolitan scales, aiming to identify key features and gaps of the existing multi-level system. Building on the assessment, the chapter highlights bottlenecks related to cooperation across levels of government, water planning, and basin management, and concludes with policy recommendations to better cope with water challenges in the face of climate change.

Ensuring long-term water security is essential in the pathway towards sustainable development in Argentina. Floods cause 60% of all critical events in the country and are responsible for 95% of economic losses. Severe droughts, in a country where the agricultural sector accounts for 6.4% of GDP as compared to a global average of 3.6%, have a strong impact in the economy. The country is also home to some of the most polluted basins worldwide. Furthermore, climate change will likely shift further water availability, uses and demand. The report is the result of a policy dialogue with more than 200 stakeholders at different levels in Argentina. It assesses water governance in Argentina, identifies several key challenges to effective, efficient and inclusive water policies, and provides a set of policy recommendations to enhance water governance as a means to address relevant societal challenges, both within the scope of water management and beyond. In particular, ways forward for Argentina include strengthening the co-ordination between national and provincial water policies, setting up a multilevel water planning and investment framework, improving basin management practices, and enhancing economic regulation for water services.

Vegetable oil exports are dominated by three major players: Indonesia, Malaysia and Argentina, imports are less concentrated appears in OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2009.

Structural duality is an important characteristic of Argentina’s agriculture and is reflected in the differences between the Pampas region and those that surround it. In the Pampas region, most of the grains, oilseeds and beef is produced by large-scale, export-oriented producers. This agriculture is highly productive, with well-developed value chains linked to international markets. Oher regions (“the regional economies”) produce fruits and vegetables and agro-industrial products like wine, tobacco, cotton or sugar. Some of these products, like apples, pears and wine, are exported in competitive world markets but have an internal duality. In the apple-and-pear value chain farms which are fully integrated into global markets (usually large and medium size) coexist with less integrated farms (mostly small-scale). These small-scale farms have several difficulties, particular the low use of technology, deficient pest control, old orchards, and in general, very limited investments at farm level. Meanwhile, the viticulture value chain has had significant investments since 1990s by both foreign and local investors attracted by deregulation and relatively low‑price, good-quality land. Nonetheless, it still faces several constraints, particularly related to limited research and development, training and extension services.

Ce document analyse les déterminants potentiels des taux d’approbation des gouvernements dans 18pays d’Amérique latine en utilisant les données de requête de recherche Internet de Google Trends et les sources de données traditionnelles. Il utilise des données de panel mensuelles entre janvier 2006 et décembre 2015. L’analyse teste plusieurs spécifications, y compris les variables explicatives traditionnelles d’approbation des gouvernements –i.e. inflation, taux de chômage, croissance du PIB, écart de production–et des variables explicatives subjectives (p.ex. Perception de la corruption et de l’insécurité). Pour ce dernier, les données des requêtes de recherche sur Internet sont utilisées pour cerner les principales préoccupations sociales des citoyens, qui sont les déterminants attendus des niveaux d’approbation des gouvernements. Les résultats montrent que la perception de la corruption et de l’insécurité ainsi que les plaintes concernant les services publics ont en effet une association statistiquement significative avec les taux d’approbation des gouvernements. Sources anonymes, les données des requêtes de recherche sur Internet mettent à disposition des gouvernements des séries haute fréquence en temps réel, utiles pour suivre l’impact dans le temps de l’élaboration des politiques sur la perception des citoyens.

This book focuses on the role of exchange rate regimes, market imperfections and trade policy to support the strengthening and diversification of the tradable sector in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Moreover, it analyses the agro-food sector, one of the pillars of the tradable sector in the region, and the role of foreign direct investment and competition policy. Overall it provides an integrated and original policy perspective on the factors underlying international competitiveness.

This chapter provides recommendations on how Argentina could set up a central monitoring and evaluation system for its integrity policies. A central monitoring system for integrity policies would help to keep track of the implementation and facilitate evidence-informed communication with internal and external stakeholders. In turn, integrity policies should be evaluated to build knowledge and enable learning. Innovative integrity measures, in turn, could be rigorously tested through impact evaluations of pilots before implementing them on scale. In addition, the chapter provides guidance on how evidence could be gathered through staff and citizen surveys to inform the design, implementation and evaluation of integrity policies.

A robust legal and regulatory framework is one of the essential building blocks and necessary pre-conditions for the successful implementation of open government strategies and initiatives. This chapter therefore analyses Argentina’s main legal and regulatory underpinnings for open government reforms and includes a discussion of the framework provided by the Argentinian constitution and the solid basis it forms for open government. The chapter recognises the important progress Argentina has made through the adoption of the Law on the Right of Access to Public Information in 2016 and provides an in-depth analysis thereof. The last part provides recommendations to support the ongoing elaboration of a State Modernisation Law.

This chapter links common findings of the Open Government and Digital Government Reviews and highlights results that are relevant for both digital and open government reforms in Argentina. In particular, the chapter focuses on ways that digital government tools can be conducive to open government reforms and vice versa. It examines the institutional framework for digital and open government in Argentina, stress the necessity to align overarching strategies, and highlights the benefits that innovation-driven initiatives can yield for the digital government and open government agendas.