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Jorge Wehbe
Argentine lawyer and economist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Florentino[citation needed] Jorge Wehbe (1920 – November 4, 1998)[1] was an Argentine lawyer and economist who served as Minister of Economy of Argentina for one year.[2][3] He was a member of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union.
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Minister of Economy
Wehbe was director at the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1955. He was Minister of Economy (August 25, 1982 – December 10, 1983) during the presidency of General Reynaldo Bignone.
His most notable achievement was negotiating the debt of Argentina, during which he made numerous trips to the United States.[2] On September 13, 1982, Economy Minister Jorge Wehbe launched a "price controls" that "put the products of 675 companies under government control" due to "the need to "protect real wages," threatened by a "monopolistic industrial structure."
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