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• Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 06:07 UTC

  ‘Official poverty’ in Argentina 2.5 million people; private estimate: 11 million

  

  The rate of poverty in Argentina dropped to 5.4% last year and indigence was down to 1.5%, according to data released by the controversial government’s stats office, Indec. A person ceases to be indigent in Argentina if he can feed on 6 Pesos daily, which based on the official rate is just over one dollar but in the parallel market 75 US cents.

• 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.