Argentine educational financing in the last thirty years (1989 - 2019). Breaks and continuities in three political cycles

Abstract

This paper aims to carry out an analysis of the financing of Argentine education, paying special attention to the participation of the national State in educational investment, through the last three decades in order to establish counterpoints on the ruptures and continuities between: the period of the neoliberal governments (1989 - 2001), the period of neo-development governments (2002 - 2015) and the period of government that began with the rise of the alliance Cambiemos to the power (2015 - 2019). To carry out this analysis, we will take into account the performance and main characteristics of the country's economic accumulation model in each period, and educational investment as a percentage of GDP, national and provincial participation in educational investment will be used as statistical indicators. The use of these indicators is related to the analysis perspective that establishes a link between the fiscal situation of the national and provincial states, and its impact on educational investment. The methodological approach is mainly quantitative with the analysis of primary sources from State agencies, as well as secondary sources from specialists in educational financing.