Luciano Laspina: “It is very difficult for any industry to innovate in a volatile and uncertain environment such as Argentina”

The national deputy of Together for Change Luciano Laspin warned that “it is very difficult for any sector to innovate in a volatile and uncertain environment such as Argentina”, during the cycle Democracy and development Organized by Clarin.

The official said that “the reason Argentina suffers from this volatility is because It doesn’t have a great deal of consensus. And he exemplified: “I can mention the fiscal balance, the independence of the Central Bank, the integration in the world”.

“Argentina has a tendency to discuss micro thinking outward, but when we discuss macro we want to close. This is a contradiction between the micro and the macro. I urge that the debate on state policies be broadened to include the major issues of long-term Argentine development, “she noted.

In this sense, Laspina stated: “The micro-policies of the state must be extended to the macro-policies of the state. There is no successful micro without a stable macro“.

The national deputy spoke from Malba, where the third chapter of the cycle entitled “The knowledge economy” is underway.

In this context, he stressed that “the world is now moving towards a sustainable industry without smokestacks”.

“Whenever I discuss sectoral laws, even those with massive support, I think what they do for those sectors is what Argentina needs for the whole macroeconomy,” he mused.

He explained that when one thinks of a sector law, taxes, regulatory stability and improvements in the public-private relationship are eliminated “which is what is needed for the entire macroeconomy”.

“State policy is a noble and necessary exercise that we must extrapolate to the major issues of development macroeconomics. We have a lot to convince ourselves of this,” he added.

On the other hand, Laspina said that “the development of countries today is the knowledge of education”.

“Global competition is a competition of educational systems and there Argentina is behaving dramatically negative“he noted.

“There is a shocking fact. Since 1983, 6 years of lessons have been lost due to unemployment. It is more shocking when you look at the econometric exercises which show that for every year of education, the long-term salary has increased by 10 per year. hundred We are facing an educational tragedy because it is a double tragedy because it generates enormous inequalities “, he exemplified.

And he concluded: “I am sure that the knowledge industry today develops its full potential thanks to private education rather than the inputs of public education. When it comes to English, technological knowledge, there is also a contribution from “basic primary education. Private schools to the detriment of public management. It is something that needs to be corrected”.

When asked about the reorganization of the educational curriculum, Laspina said that “we must work on an educational reform”.

“We have to work quantitatively and also qualitatively. Nobody denies the potential of public universities, but neither can it be denied that 6 out of 10 children do not finish high school in a timely manner. we are experiencing a real tragedy at the public primary school level“, He threw.

“We have a lot to work on in terms of education reform, especially quality in public primary schools. I am not saying that UBA or CONICET are not talent niches. I say this will not spread if 6 out of 10 children write or read with difficulty. . It’s not River-Boca. To have a constructive debate you have to work on the things that are missing, “he concluded.

Laspina was part of the first panel together with the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Daniel Filmus; the Secretary for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency, Gustavo Beliz; and the president of Argencon, Sebastián Mocorrea.

This year the cycle Democracy and development proposes to discuss how to get Argentina back on the road to development.

The first two meetings have already taken place. The first, on 17 May, analyzed the Basis for growth, with one table focusing on the economy and another on legal certainty.