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### Viewing cable 07BUENOSAIRES1947, ARGENTINA'S INVESTMENT PITCH MARRED BY POOR GRADES ON

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07BUENOSAIRES1947 | 2007-09-28 18:06 | 2011-03-26 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Buenos Aires
Appears in these articles: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1360470-cuatro-paises-denunciaron-corrupcion-en-el-gobierno

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    DE RUEHBU #1947/01 2711844
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    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9381
    INFO RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
    RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHINGTON DC
    RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE USD FAS WASHINGTON DC
    RUEHC/DEPT OF LABOR WASHINGTON DC
    RHMFIUU/HQ USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
    RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 6608
    RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 6805
    RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 0815
    RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 6478
    RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ SEP CARACAS 1521
    RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 1334

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    UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001947

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    EMBASSY PARIS PASS USOECD PAUL REID

    PASS NSC FOR MICHAEL SMART

    PASS FED BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR PATRICE ROBITAILLE

    PASS USTR FOR KATHERINE DUCKWORTH AND MARY SULLIVAN

    TREASURY FOR MATT MALLOY

    USDOC FOR 4322/ITA/MAC/OLAC/PEACHER

    US SOUTHCOM FOR POLAD

    E.O. 12958: N/A

    TAGS: EINV ECON PGOV PREL AR

    SUBJECT: ARGENTINA'S INVESTMENT PITCH MARRED BY POOR GRADES ON

    CORRUPTION, DOING BUSINESS

    REF: Buenos Aires 1938

    ¶1. (U) Summary: During President and Mrs. Kirchner's New York

    business-focused visit (reftel), two highly respected and widely

    read international business reports released their annual surveys -

    and Argentina came up wanting.  Transparency International's

    ""Corruption Perceptions Index 2007"" (CPI) and the World Bank's

    ""Doing Business 2008"" both released their findings on September 25,

    were widely publicized in local media, and gave Argentina poor

    grades in the areas of corruption and ease of doing business.  The

    reports largely tracked with previous years' ratings.  End Summary.

    ¶2. (U) Transparency International's CPI, the preeminent comparative

    international measure of corruption, ranked Argentina 105 out of

    180, ranking it alongside Mongolia, Albania, Bolivia and Burkina

    Faso.  The 2007 CPI survey ranked 180 countries and territories by

    their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert

    assessments, opinion surveys and business people, and ranges between

    10 (highly clean) and 0 (highly corrupt).  Denmark, Finland and New

    Zealand, all at 9.4, led the list.  The United States ranked 20th,

    at 7.2.  Among Latin American nations, Chile (#22, 7.0) and Uruguay

    (#25, 6.7) again led the region in 2007.  Argentina's index was 2.9.

     Venezuela (#162, 2.0) and Haiti (177, 1.6) bottomed out the list

    for the Western Hemisphere.

    ¶3. (U) In the World Bank's Doing Business 2008 survey, Argentina

    ranked 109 of 178, alongside Bangladesh, Nigeria, Belarus, and

    Nepal.  The survey is a composite, ""ease of doing business"" index

    comprised of the following factors: starting a business, dealing

    with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting

    credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders,

    enforcing contracts, and closing a business.  Singapore, New

    Zealand, and the United States occupied top three spots.  Among

    Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico (28), Chile (33), and

    St. Lucia (34) were the highest ranking; Haiti, Venezuela and

    Ecuador were the worst.

    ¶4. (SBU) One of the most noteworthy and wide disseminated factors

    that comprised this overall ""doing business"" survey picked up by the

    local press was the number of salary weeks payment required to

    terminate an employee.  Employers must pay a fired worker 139 weeks

    of salary in Argentina (compared to zero in the United States,

    Denmark, and New Zealand).  Note that this 139-week figure does not

    take into account GOA's recent termination of its onerous ""double

    indemnification"" labor termination policy; if it had, this number

    would have been less.  Nevertheless, even if this policy change had

    been incorporated into the survey, according to the survey's

    methodology, Argentina's overall Doing Business score would not have

    changed much.

    ¶5. (U) The Doing Business 2008 survey highlighted other serious

    policy challenges facing Argentina.  While it takes only one legal

    procedure to start a new business in Australia (four in the United

    States), it takes 14 in Argentina.  While it takes two days to start

    a new business in Australia (six in the United States), it takes 31

    in Argentina.  These and other findings serve as reminders of why

    employers are reluctant to hire new workers (an estimated 41% of the

    Argentine labor force is informal) or make new investments.

    ¶6. (SBU) Comment: Unfortunately for the GOA, these reports were

    released at precisely the time that its first couple was pitching

    Argentina to investors in New York.  On the one hand, they were a

    rude reminder to prospective investors about the challenges of doing

    business here.  However, on the other hand, the reports tracked

    almost exactly with previous years' ratings, and thus there was a

    sense of resignation and ""nothing new"" to the reports.  And, in an

    almost perverse sense, as GOA officials are constantly saying that

    there is ""money to be made in Argentina,"" perhaps the real message

    to these damaging reports is that, yes, there is money to be made,

    as long as you know how - and with whom - ""doing business"" is really

    done in Argentina.  Local banking and business sources noted that

    presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner missed and

    opportunity to address these and other issues during her September

    24-28 visit to New York.  End comment.

    WAYNE

    =======================CABLE ENDS============================

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