Tag: Argentina poverty

• Monday, June 15th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Catholic Church points out that 25% of Argentines are below the poverty line

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church has stood out strongly on the controversy that has followed President Cristina Fernandez statement before the FAO assembly in Rome arguing that poverty in Argentina is below 5%, which was later made superlative by her spokesperson and cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez arguing that poverty in Argentina was less than in Germany or Denmark.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2015 - 07:49 UTC

  Argentina is paradise: poverty below 5% rate Cristina Fernandez tells the world

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández sparked controversy on Sunday when in a speech before the FAO conference in Rome, she endorsed widely disputed government figures on poverty, saying the rate was “below five percent,” adding that destitution in the country stood at 1.27%. If this was correct Argentina's poverty rate is below that of OECD rich league members.

• Thursday, February 12th 2015 - 21:04 UTC

  Argentine church says child malnutrition stats manipulated; blames corruption and indifference

  

  Argentina's Catholic church warned that the official data on child malnutrition is 'manipulated' to avoid responsibility and rejected the official government argument that the death of some children because of nutrition problems are 'isolated cases'. The statement follows the surfacing of children's deaths of aborigines communities in northern Argentina.

• Monday, September 22nd 2014 - 05:01 UTC

  A third of Argentina's population 'vulnerable' to falling back into poverty, says World Bank

  

  Approximately 33% of Argentina's population (or those living with between 4 and 10 dollars per day) are vulnerable to falling into poverty if faced with adverse economic conditions, the World Bank said in its 2015-2018 Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) report for Argentina.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 13:28 UTC

  Over 30% of Argentine children live in households below the poverty line

  

  Four out of ten people in Argentina live in households where children suffer poverty conditions, according to the latest release from the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) Social Debt Barometer.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 00:24 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ally union admits 18.8% (7 million) of Argentines are under the poverty line

  

  At least 7 million Argentines, or 18.8% of the population, currently find themselves under the poverty line, with 1.7 million (4.2%) classed as in extreme poverty or indigence, according to a new report from the Argentine Workers' Central (CTA) union headed by the Cristina Fernandez government ally Hugo Yasky.

• Wednesday, April 30th 2014 - 08:57 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina stands at 27.5% of population, says Catholic University

  

  Poverty and indigence in Argentina in the last quarter of 2013 again increased and reached 27,5% of the population and 17.8% of households, according to the latest report from the Catholic University Social Debt Observatory, UCA.

• Friday, April 25th 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's poverty index closer to “25% than to the official 5% from Indec”

  

  Argentina's stats office, Indec failed on Wednesday to deliver the country's poverty and indigence rates due to “methodological” reasons, the head of ministers explained on Thursday morning adding the measurement of the basic basket “differs totally” from CPI’s calculations. His comments triggered a cataract of criticisms.

• Thursday, April 24th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentine government cancels releases on poverty and indigence

  

  Argentina's Statistics and Census Institute (Indec) postponed the release of figures from the so-called House Poll, which includes strategic information regarding poverty and indigence rates, officials from that entity confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.

• Thursday, December 26th 2013 - 23:54 UTC

  Argentina’s socioeconomic statistics: still lying after all these years, says The Economist

  

  For years the IMF turned a blind eye as Argentina doctored its inflation index and plumped up its numbers for economic growth. Then last February the fund steeled itself and censured the country, warning it to improve its statistics by September or face potential suspension or expulsion. This threat was unprecedented in the fund’s history.