Tag: Graciela Bevacqua

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina's revamped stats data launched: May inflation 4.2%

  

  Argentina released inflation figures for the first time since December last year, when newly elected president Mauricio Macri suspended the publication of economic data and intervened the official stats office, Indec, following long standing claims of manipulation by his predecessor.

• 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.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:58 UTC

  Argentine inflation controversy: court vindicates private stats agencies

  

  An Argentine appeals court threw out the fines that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno had slapped on private firms that issued inflation estimates that were much higher than the government’s official rate.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina and the price of cooking the books, according to The Economist

  

  History has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices. When they spot inflation their instinct is to dump the peso and buy dollars.