BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS Poverty above 40% fuels despair ahead of vote 27-09-2023 18:20 Surging consumer price increases are the dominant factor behind Argentina's ballooning poverty rate.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS UCA report: Poverty rate would be 50% without welfare support 03-09-2023 10:24 New report from the Catholic University of Argentina’s Social Debt Observatory concludes poverty affects 38.9% of the population; Those under 17 most affected; Without child benefit and welfare support payments from the government, half of Argentina would be poor.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS Private estimates say Argentina’s poverty rate has risen to 43% 09-07-2023 08:00 Around 12.5 million people in Argentina are now poor, according to new calculations from UCA and Di Tella universities; High inflation in first six months of year and inability of wages to keep pace with wage hikes means further one million people have slipped below the poverty line.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS UCA: 6 in 10 children and adolescents in Argentina are poor 16-05-2023 15:07 Data from UCA’s influential Observatorio de la Deuda Social indicates that some 8.2 million people aged under 17 were living in poverty at the end of 2022.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS UCA report puts poverty rate at 43.1% 06-12-2022 14:07 More than 17 million people in the country are poor, according to the latest report by the influential Social Debt Observatory of the UCA Catholic university; Figure would rise to 50% without existing state assistance, concludes study.
POVERTY 2,800 Argentines slipping into poverty every day, experts warn 23-06-2022 23:20 Private estimates reveal horrifying social data underlining that being employed, whether formally or informally, is no guarantee against being poor. With annual inflation approaching three digits and sustained price increases for food and beverages above the monthly average, family incomes are increasingly falling short. by Gonzalo Martínez
NEW REPORT Study: One in four young people in Argentina neither study nor work 24-05-2022 17:27 One in four young people aged between 18 and 24 in Argentina do not study or work, according to a new study.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS UCA: 65% of children in Argentina living in poverty 08-12-2021 09:45 According to UCA’s Social Debt Observatory, 43.8% of the country’s population was considered poor as of last October, a drop of almost a point on the previous year’s total of 44.7%.