This analysis reveals the limited impact of digital development on poverty reduction in Argentina, highlighting issues of digital inclusion and political dynamics.
Despite notable advances in digital infrastructure and services, Argentina's digital strategy has marginalised poverty reduction as a core objective. Digital inclusion initiatives have often been politically instrumentalised, prioritising symbolic visibility over structural transformation. Geographic and sectoral asymmetries further constrain the redistributive potential of digital economic development. Through a critical institutionalist lens, this study interrogates how institutional histories, political incentives and policy paradigms shape the poverty‐reduction outcomes of digitalisation in Latin America's highly urbanised, middle‐income contexts, challenging dominant functionalist and technocratic narratives in digital transformation research.
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