Tag: Basic Foods Basket

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Chilean president pledges food subsidies for vulnerable families; inflation the highest in three decades

  

  Chilean president Gabriel Boric said his government was preparing a mechanism to help vulnerable families pay for their basic food basket, which is to be financed with subsidies.

• Thursday, October 12th 2017 - 20:55 UTC

  Global food prices up 0.8% in September, according to FAO Index

  

  Global food prices rose slightly in September, as firmer prices of vegetable oils and to a lesser extent dairy products offset declining prices for staple cereal grains. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 178.4 points for the month of September, up 0.8% from August and marking a 4.3% increase from a year earlier.

• Friday, September 23rd 2016 - 10:55 UTC

  An Argentine family to remain above the poverty line needs US$ 820 a month

  

  An Argentine average household made up of a couple with two children 6 and 8 years old needs 12.489 Pesos (approx US$ 820) to remain above the poverty line according to the stats office, Indec estimate for the month of August. The same household will have to pay 5.176 Pesos (approx US$ 340) for the Basic food basket, not to drop to indigence.

• Friday, May 9th 2014 - 07:20 UTC

  The 'indigence' basic food basket in Argentina climbed 40% in 12 months

  

  An average Argentine family during the month of April needed 4.779 Pesos (approx. 600 dollars) not to be included in the poverty category, which represents an increase of 1.6% over March, of 20% in the first four months of the year and 40.5% in the last twelve months, according to the latest report from the Latin American Economic Research Foundation, FIEL.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 11:51 UTC

  Basic Foods’ Basket in Argentina increased 35.9% in twelve months

  

  The Basic Foods Basket, CBA, an index from Argentina’s Foundation for Latin American Economic Research (FIEL) increased 0.6% in July compared to the previous month, 21% in the first seven months of the year, and 35.9% over a year ago.