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Growing Resentment On Price Controls

November 2006 | Company Finance Alert
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Argentine pharmaceutical industry associations CAEME, CILFA and CPERALA have insisted that member companies have not significantly raised prices since the introduction of anti-inflation controls late last year. Firms argue that while the consumer price index was up 6.4% year-on-year in September 2006, pharmaceutical prices increased by an average of just 2.5%. However, a number of recent surveys by consumer groups claim larger rises in some specific therapeutic