Argentina Eyes $20 Billion in Investment in 2016, Macri Says
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Argentina Sees $20 Billion in 2016 Investments: Macri
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Argentine President Mauricio Macri swept through the halls of Davos claiming a potential windfall of $20 billion in foreign investment this year from energy to infrastructure as he tries to persuade global investors that this time is different for Latin America’s third-largest economy.
“Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape,” Macri said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We’re a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It’s impossible.”