Tag: poverty rate

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  IMF also concerned with the increase in the poverty rate in Argentina

  

  An official with the International Monetary Fund has declared that the increase in the poverty rate in Argentina could force the government to rethink its spending plans and “protect the poor.”

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  A third of Argentines, and one in two children living in poverty conditions, according to official data

  

  The poverty rate in Argentina during the second half of 2018 rose to 32%, or six percentage points from the same period the previous year, while 6.7% of citizens are living in a state of extreme poverty or indigence. The data was released by the INDEC Argentina's official statistics bureau on Thursday.