As Argentina gets ready to vote for a new president, over 40 percent of its population live under the poverty line as their budgets are squeezed by triple digit inflation. The two candidates running for president – far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei and ruling Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa – are offering radically different solutions. How did the country end up in an extreme inflationary spiral? We speak to Vera Chiodi, associate professor at Sorbonne University (Institut des hautes études de l' Amérique latine).
As Israel's war against Hamas Gaza enters its second month, Bryan Quinn looks at its devastating economic effect on Palestinian territories.
And a report from Chad shows that the country is moving up the meat sector's value chain from traditional pastoral farming to meat processing and exporting.
