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Spanish
Etymology
Univerbation of va y viene, literally “it goes and comes”. Compare Italian va e vieni, French va-et-vient.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baiˈben/
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: vai‧vén
Noun
vaivén m (plural vaivenes)
- swaying, rocking
- fluctuation
- (figurative) back and forth, ups and downs
2019 March 28, “Los vaivenes del país explican por qué la pobreza bajó en la región y no en la Argentina”, in La Vanguardia:El elemento común parece ser que todos esos países han logrado evitar los vaivenes macroeconómicos (alta inflación, problemas de financiamiento, depreciaciones bruscas, etc.) con los que Argentina ha lidiado en forma casi constante en estos años. De ese modo, estos otros países lograron sentar las bases para que luego otras políticas, de distinto tipo, les permitan crecer y distribuir los frutos de ese crecimiento.- The common element seems to be that all these countries managed to avoid the macroeconomic ups and downs (high inflation, financing problems, sudden depreciations, etc.) that Argentina has been dealing with in an almost constant form in these years. This way, these other countries managed to establish grounds on which other policies of other kinds may allow them to grow and distribute the results of such growth.
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