Tag: Indec

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:56 UTC

  Argentine November inflation 1.44% and 22.63% in eleven months, say lawmakers

  

  Argentine Lower House opposition lawmakers announced on Tuesday that inflation in November had reached 1.44%, accumulating so far this year, 22.63%. The so called ‘Congressional index’ is an average of the estimates from private consultants who face heavy fines if they make public their numbers.

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 00:08 UTC

  IMF denies Argentine court info on how to calculate inflation: “files are inviolable”

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) avoided replying to an inquiry required by Argentine Judge Alejandro Catania, who handles the case of the lawsuit filed by the Domestic Trade Secretariat against private consulting agencies.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 08:07 UTC

  Lagarde leaves Argentina out of tour for not complying with understanding

  

  IMF chief specifically excluded Argentina from its coming Latinamerican tour because the government of President Cristina Fernandez still has to comply with what was agreed last July, basically normalizing the controversial INDEC stats office and open its books to auditing as happens with all other members of the G20.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 15:31 UTC

  A third of metropolitan Buenos Aires live below poverty line claims Catholic Church

  

  Over a third of metropolitan Buenos Aires, 34.9%, live below the poverty line which is equivalent to 4.4 million people, more than double the official Argentine government estimate, according to a paper from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, and the local Caritas chapter from the Catholic Church.

• Friday, November 18th 2011 - 21:39 UTC

  Argentine economic activity expands in September for 25th straight month

  

  Argentina's economy grew 7.7% in September from a year earlier, the government said on Friday, beating market expectations and marking the 25th straight month of growth.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 06:27 UTC

  Argentine congress October ‘inflation index’: 1.49%, double the official rate

  

  Argentine lawmakers announced Monday the so-called Congressional ‘inflation index” for October which they estimated at 1.49% and is well over double the official Indec index released last week, 0.6%.

• Saturday, November 12th 2011 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentine official October inflation 0.6%; the congressional index, 1.6%

  

  Argentina's official inflation was reported at 0.6% in October, breaking with 18 straight months of consumer prices reported at either 0.7 or 0.8%, the government reported on Friday.

• Saturday, October 15th 2011 - 04:30 UTC

  Argentine September official inflation 0.8%, less than half private estimates

  

  September inflation in Argentina climbed 0.8%, less than half the estimate from private consultants, according to the latest report from the discredited Statistics and Census Institute, Indec. In nine months accumulated inflation reached 7.3% and compared to a year ago, 9.9%.

• Thursday, October 13th 2011 - 23:23 UTC

  Argentine ‘Congress inflation’ in August reached 1.89%, double the official index

  

  Argentine opposition members of the Lower House released on Thursday the dissident inflation rate (‘Congress index’) for October. The index, which was set at 1.89%, is based on reports delivered by some private consultants, which differ substantially from that release by the INDEC Statistics Bureau Agency.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  IMF insists Argentina must improve measuring inflation method

  

  Nicolas Eyzaguirre, the IMF director for Latin America, stated that Argentina must apply “major measures” to improve its method of measuring the inflation.