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Argentine Government Accelerates State Contraction With Scheme to Eliminate 20,000 Public Sector Jobs

The federal administration has launched a new voluntary redundancy program designed to permanently shrink the national bureaucracy, compounding the departure of 77,000 state workers since late 2023 and cementing the deepest public sector reduction in modern Argentine history.
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