BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's government is ramping up state intervention in the economy to try to prevent a new debt default from triggering a balance of payments crisis but its policies are also battering business confidence and may deepen a recession.
The leftist government's measures are meant to shore up foreign reserves that stand at less than five months' worth of imports and boost consumer confidence in the US$490bil economy from contracting further.
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