The Ministry of Productive Development ( es, Ministerio de Desarrollo Productivo; MDP) of

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was a ministry of the national executive power overseeing and advising on the promotion of industrial policies and

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in Argentina. Starting from its establishment in 1949, it was variously called Ministry of Industry, Industry and Commerce, Industry and Mining, Production, and Production and Labour. The ministry received its last name in 2019 in the cabinet of President

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; its last minister is

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. It was dissolved in August 2022 as part of a cabinet reorganization process; the Production portfolio currently stands as a secretariat of the Ministry of Economy.

History

The Ministry of Productive Development was originally founded as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in 1949, during the presidency of

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. Perón was especially interested in industrializing the Argentine economy, which at the time was heavily dependent on

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. The first minister in the portfolio was José Constantino Barro, who served during Perón's first presidential term from 1949 until 1952. In Perón's second presidential term, the ministry was renamed to simply "Ministry of Industry", a name that was retained by the military governments of

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and

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. Successive administrations revived the ministry under various names and with various additional responsibilities, including that of commerce and mining; otherwise the industry and production portfolios were organized as secretariats of the Treasury Ministry. Since 2019, the Ministry's official name is Ministry of Productive Development, with Matías Kulfas at its helm.

Structure and dependencies

At the time of its dissolution in August 2022, the Ministry of Productive Development counted with a number of centralized and decentralized dependencies. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, were known as secretariats (''secretarías'') and undersecretariats (''subsecretarías''), as well as a number of other centralized agencies: *Secretariat of Domestic Trade (''Secretaría de Comercio Interior'') **Undersecretariat of Domestic Trade Policies (''Subsecretaría de Políticas para el Mercado Interno'') **National Competition Defense Commission (''Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia'') **Undersecretariat of Consumer Defense Actions (''Subsecretaría de Acciones para la Defensa de las y los Consumidores'') *Secretariat for Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Entrepreneurs (''Secretaría de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa y los Emprendedores'') **Undersecretariat of Pyme Financing and Competition (''Subsecretaría de Financiamiento y Competitividad Pyme'') **Undersecretariat of Pyme Productivity and Regional Development (''Subsecretaría de la Productividad y Desarrollo Regional Pyme'') **Undersecretariat of Entrepreneurs (''Subsecretaría de Emprendedores'') *Secretariat of Industry, Economy and Foreign Trade Administration (''Secretaría de Industria, Economía del Conocimiento y Gestión Comercial Externa'') **Executive Unit for the Argentine Foreign Trade Single Registry National Regime (''Unidad Ejecutora del Régimen Nacional de Ventanilla Única de Comercio Exterior Argentino'') **National Foreign Trade Commission (''Comisión Nacional de Comercio Exterior'') **Undersecretariat of Industry (''Subsecretaría de Industria'') **Undersecretariat of Commercial Policy and Administration (''Subsecretaría de Política y Gestión Comercial'') **Undersecretariat of Knowledge Economy (''Subsecretaría de Economía del Conocimiento'') *Secretariat of Mining (''Secretaría de Minería'') **Undersecretariat of Mining Development (''Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Minero'') **Undersecretariat of Mining Policy (''Subsecretaría de Política Minera'') *Secretariat of Energy (''Secretaría de Energía'') **Undersecretariat of Electric Energy (''Subsecretaría de Energía Eléctrica'') **Undersecretariat of Hydrocarbon Fuels (''Subsecretaría de Hidrocarburos'') **Undersecretariat of Energy Planning (''Subsecretaría de Planeamiento Energético'') Several decentralized agencies also reported to the Ministry of Productive Development, such as the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), the Buenos Aires Central Market, and the Banco de Inversión y Comercio Exterior.

Headquarters

The Ministry of Productive Development was headquartered in the Palacio de Hacienda ("Palace of the Treasury"), located in the Monserrat ''

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'' in

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, which has historically housed the Ministry of Economy (formerly known as the Ministry of the Treasury) as well as other ministerial portfolios such as

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and

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. The building was built in two stages from 1937 to 1950 and stands on Hipólito Yrigoyen street, across from the emblematic

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square and the

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, seat of the

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List of ministers

References

External links

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