Economics

IMF Critic Close to Stiglitz Made Argentine Economy Minister

  • Economist Martin Guzman has frequently criticized IMF policies
  • Guzman’s research has focused on sovereign debt crises

Martin Guzman

Photographer: Juan Mabromata/AFP

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Martin Guzman, a protege of Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University, will become Argentina’s next economy minister, overseeing the nation’s attempts to get out of recession and renegotiate its debt.

“He’s a young man, who’s very well trained, and who understands Argentina’s debt conflict and macroeconomic conflict very well,” President-elect Alberto Fernandez said Friday, as he named his cabinet.