Articles by Alice Bay
Argentina's IMF program, explained: what $20 billion buys and requires
The largest IMF program in the institution's history anchors Argentina's stabilization. What the targets are, what has been met, and what remains unresolved.
Mendoza's Malbec economy: high altitude, thin air, hard numbers
One province holds about 70 percent of Argentina's vineyard area, and one French grape carries its export ambitions. A field guide to the business behind the bottle.
Fifty kilos a year: how asado built Argentina's beef economy
Argentines eat more beef per person than almost anyone on earth, and the Sunday parrilla quietly organizes a 50-million-head industry. Inside the culture that became a business model.
YPF at 100: the company that keeps becoming Argentina's argument
Founded in 1922 as the world's first state oil company, privatized, renationalized, and now a shale machine with LNG ambitions. A profile of the country's strategic balance sheet.
What is Vaca Muerta, the shale formation carrying Argentina's energy bets?
A single rock layer in Neuquén province now supplies more than half of Argentina's oil. This explainer covers the geology, the companies, the pipeline and the export question.