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Infancy poverty in Argentina extensive to 40% of children living in urban areas
Infancy poverty in Argentina includes 40% of all children in urban areas, while 9.5% are considered to be living in indigent conditions, according to the latest Social Debt Barometer, from the Argentina Catholic University, UCA. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesOh so there's no poverty in Argentina?!! Roll on the claims that the article is a lie, and the comments about UK food banks lol
Aug 28th, 2015 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tevez speaks the truth about poverty in Argentina.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Kicillof won't talk about poverty because it will stigmatise CFK.
Problem with this is that there's a massive crash coming, worse than 1989 and 2001 put together. The top estimates of poverty was 50% in 2001. The terrible K policies, which mirror Chavez/Maduro policies (without the oil) will bring that number up higher than they've ever seen.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hyperinflation/Depression
Breadlines
And some sweet street fighting over the last bag of beans.
I can't wait.
Better economy and less poverty than Germany, according to CFK.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Does she believe her own lies?
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Aug 28th, 2015 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Instead of gloating why not dig into your pockets and give a donation to help the underprivileged children....
Maybe some shoes for that one kid in the pic....
Some of your waiters tips would do....
@5 If CFK admitted the problem I am sure a lot of money would be donated to help the poor of Argentina.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We donate enough to these 3 rd world countries and all they do is fritter it all away, that is if it gets past the relative governments pockets.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#5 Voice
Aug 28th, 2015 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0With all sincerity. It's wrong to gloat about economic factors that will negatively affect the poor lie the children in the picture. The problem is that many charities in Argentina are corrupt and very little, if any at all, of the donations end up benefiting the poor. Evita had the largest and most famous charity in Argentina and she loved to give deserving children toys for Christmas. She would personally visit poor neighborhoods and distribute food baskets to families. Children needing medical attention were picked up at their ramshackle abodes and swiftly taken to the best of hospitals for the best medical attention. All this was carefully documented in the newspapers, newsreels and even a government sponsored movie. The real truth however was that over 90% of the charity funds were used by the Perons to enrich their Swiss bank accounts.
I've been traveling to Mendoza on a regular basis for many years. Recently I've seen more poverty than ever before. It breaks my heart to see children in such conditions.
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Aug 28th, 2015 - 04:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is a good point.
The Ks are like some of the trolls on this site. They are either totally ignorant of the magnitude of the poverty in their country or they just prefer to deny it.
In recent years many links have developed between miners in La Serena and San Juan in Argentina. As they attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to develop their mining industry many Chilean engineers and managers were required to work over there.
They were shocked at the level of poverty they saw there. The shock is double because not only is it on a scale that you don't see here, but it goes under reported. Now there is a group of miners who organize aid parcels for the children of San Juan. A very nice outcome.
If more knew, more could help.
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Add to your list that they are on target for a commercial deficit this year for the first time since 2001.
yankeeboy, I would love to see how you consistently come up with predictions that are right, even better than the best economists in the world. What is the economic theory you follow?
Aug 28th, 2015 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So 40 per cent of Argentina's children live in poverty. It is tragic that so many children are starving but the blame lies with Argentina's corrupt, cruel and callous president Kirchner. Bloomberg has just reported :
Aug 28th, 2015 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”The past century has been an unmitigated failure for Argentina’s economy. A century ago, the country was firmly in the ranks of the developed nations, boasting a per capita gross domestic product about three-quarters that of the U.S. (about where Japan and the U.K. stand today). Since then, the figure has declined relentlessly, as Argentina stagnated and the rest of the world pulled ahead. As of today, Argentina is down to about a third of U.S. income levels, putting it solidly in the ranks of middle-income countries.
In the early 2000s, GDP -- not GDP growth, but actual income per person -- plunged by about two-thirds. That is a disaster on a level usually seen only by the likes of Russia or Zimbabwe.”
So Kirchner has turned Argentina into the Zimbabwe of Latin America. But never mind, the buses and worthless banknotes have maps of the Falklands on them. It is so sad for the beautiful Argentinian people.
3. Onions.
Aug 28th, 2015 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/535739/Argentina-paid-millions-from-Uk-foreign-aid-budget
Aug 28th, 2015 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Something to make some of us smile. I wonder whether it will actually make any difference? I think it disgusting that money can be accepted in foreign aid (meant for education) and, despite the denials of poverty and a failing economy, so much time, effort and money is wasted on trying to convince everybody that “we will get the Falklands back”!
If for whatever reason Argentina cant feed and cloth its people,
Aug 28th, 2015 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then it should drop its stupid claim to the Falkland's, and put this money time and effort into helping its own people,
the governments first duty is to its people. not to its global ambitions...
Briton,
Aug 28th, 2015 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a bit hard when they are burning the ballot boxes.
Most of the children in the pics look Amerindian. Coincidence?
Aug 29th, 2015 - 03:45 am - Link - Report abuse 040% of Argentine children - 100% of Argentine AmerIndian children...
Aug 29th, 2015 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 010. Its a secret.
Aug 29th, 2015 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 05. There are plenty of USA charities working in Argentina. I couldn't care less if they are shoeless or starve. They should blame their parents, grandparents, g-grandparents for being stupid and lazy allowing bad gov't to ruin their lives.
Importers are complaining that they're owed U$14B in overdue payments.
Which means no imports coming.
Which brings bare shelves.
Just like Venezuela
BCRA is broke.
Pretty soon people are going to realize it.
Kaboom
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Aug 29th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can I just highlight your position so that we all know what you are....
Yankeeboy couldn't care less whether innocent children are shoeless or starve...
Now that's clear what was the other ridiculous point...oh yeah...
Like you should blame yourself for allowing Obama to govern the US....Doh!
Yes that's my position. I didn't stutter.
Aug 29th, 2015 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0We've not had 3 generations of Presidents making us poorer and dumber. In fact we've had almost a straight line growth for 100+ years. There's not one country that even comes close to what we are or what we will be in the next decade.
This next decade is telling. I see an amazing future for the USA.
I still do have faith in the USA population. The Dems like all Progs need a dumb, state supported population to stay in power and we're not there yet.
I hope
@20 Surely 55 of those 100 years of straight growth were under Democratic leadership.
Aug 29th, 2015 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You really need to learn some compassion. Children are innocents. I am not sure why you like to paint yourself as a cartoon villain on here. You left Argentina years ago. You say you have no business interests there. What is your problem with every single Argentine including the children?
Tis always the innocent that suffer, whilst the government and others of powerful means ,
Aug 29th, 2015 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0suffer the stress of 5 course meals every day, posh cloths luxury hoses and palaces, the stress of trying to spend millions each year, luxury holidays cruises , oh the hardship of the rich,
but yet suffer the little ones and the poor,
just my opinion.
Child poverty is a tragedy for any country and inexcusable in a country like Argentina.
Aug 30th, 2015 - 08:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Child poverty has long existed in Argentina, and the only governments that have made moves to alleviate it have been Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. This is acknowledged in the article, although totally ignored by all posters above.
“The report also acknowledges that government decisions for social protection of infancy such at the Family Universal Allowance per Child, AUH, implemented since 2009, have helped in combating poverty.”
None of the previous Argentine governments had taken similar measures, which are still decried by the country's more backward sectors.
This is why it's so difficult for the opposition to get much traction with the population.
@23 “the only governments that have made moves to alleviate it have been Néstor and Cristina Kirchner.” With all due respect that is absolute bollocks. What the K's have done is TELL people they have helped the poor. That's all. And long-distant Argentines believe it.
Aug 30th, 2015 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0When are you going to buy that plane ticket and go and see the truth?
hear,hear.
Aug 30th, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only solution to affect poverty is for the dope of pope to say to all catholics it is ok to use condons and anti birth pills, and until that happens the catholic church forever condone poverty. Why so many starving children? It is blindingly obvious.
Aug 30th, 2015 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#23 EM
Aug 30th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“...the only governments that have made moves to alleviate it have been Néstor and Cristina Kirchner...”
Why is it I see more poverty and misery in the streets of Mendoza today then when I was there on a regular basis when Menem was president?
Why are the ongoing (and spreading) protests in Tucuman not being reported here?
Aug 31st, 2015 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why the loss of TV transmission during Lanata's show?
Why the power cuts when people start tweeting about the loss of TV transmission?
No reporting on the fact that with 10% of the votes recounted, the opposition has 55% of the vote in Tucuman either.
I'm sure the truth will come out eventually...
So, they are running out of US$, the evidence of electoral fraud is mounting, the people are starting to lose patience and the government is try to cover this up. What could possible go wrong?...
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