Tag: Poverty in Argentina

• Tuesday, June 4th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

  Poverty on the rise in Argentina, study finds

  

  According to a study published Monday by the Observatory of the Argentine Social Debt (ODSA for its acronym in Spanish), poverty rose to 55.5% of the population, affecting nearly 25 million people in the South American country in the first quarter of 2024. At the same time, indigence (a situation even below poverty) reached 17.5% with a food insecurity scope of 24.7% of the population.

• Monday, March 18th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentines faring worse off under Milei

  

  Despite the apparent success of Argentine President Javier administration's policies to curb inflation, various reports last week showed plummetting figures regarding economic activity and welfare. To fight growing retail prices, the Libertarian Government authorized imports of yerba mate, dairy products, meat, rice, and even sugar.

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 20:03 UTC

  Argentina's statistics bureau finds 4 out of 10 people are poor

  

  The latest data from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) show that the poverty index has reversed a meager 1.4 % during the first half of 2021.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Some 15.8 million Argentines living in poverty according to the latest data

  

  Poverty in Argentina rose to 35.4% of the population in the first half of the year, the highest officially recorded level since 2001, the INDEC national statistics bureau reported today. This means that some 15.8 million Argentines are now considered poor, INDEC's data indicates. At the end of 2018, 32% of Argentines were said to be living in poverty.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 12:16 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina on the rise, Catholic University research shows

  

  Poverty in Argentina reached “35 per cent” so far this year, according to Argentine Catholic University (UCA), it was reported last week.

• Thursday, September 29th 2016 - 10:35 UTC

  One in three Argentines, 8.8 million live in poverty and 1.7 million are indigent

  

  Nearly one-third of Argentina’s population lives in poverty, the government said on Wednesday in the first official poverty data published in three years, underscoring the difficulty of reaching President Mauricio Macri’s stated “zero poverty” goal. The ranks of the poor surveyed in Argentina totaled 8.8 million people, or 32.2% of the population in 31 urban areas surveyed.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:32 UTC

  Four million Argentine children live in poverty conditions, according to Unicef

  

  Almost four million children in Argentina are poor and 8.5% live in extreme poverty, according to a report from UNICEF which measures multidimensional poverty which considers 28 indicators such as nutrition, access to healthcare, exposure to violence, among other more traditional references.

• Monday, March 28th 2016 - 05:36 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church slams poverty and supports Obama's visit, “we must reconcile with the world”

  

  The Argentine Catholic Church again exposed poverty asking that those who have should not to be overcome by greed and called for “a new and different Argentina”. There are “too many people” in Argentina living in poverty, Salta’s archbishop and second vice-president of the Argentine Synod Mario Cargnello said on Holy Friday, asking people “not to be overcome by greed.”

• Thursday, November 12th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Kirchners' ex minister claims poverty in Argentina is similar to that of the 2001/02 crisis

  

  Argentina's former Secretary of Culture José Nun said that “current poverty” in the country “is similar to that which preceded the 2001/02 crisis”, and underlined that he “would never vote” for the presidential incumbent candidate Daniel Scioli, who was handpicked by outgoing head of state Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine magistrate orders Executive to release poverty figures; government says judge is 'meddling'

  

  An Argentine magistrate ordered the Executive to present official reports on the extent of poverty and indigence in the country, figures which allegedly the much questioned stats office, Indec ceased to release almost two years ago. However cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez ironically downplayed the order arguing the judge was 'meddling' in something she does not know.