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Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...

18, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) The Argentinian government statistics agency says the official poverty rate in Argentina jumped to about 53% during the first six months of Javier Milei’s ...

Poverty in Argentina rose to over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to data released Thursday by ...

About 52.9% of Argentines were mired below the poverty line in the first half of the year, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, according to government data published Thursday.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s poverty rate has surged to 52.9 per cent under its government’s austerity programme, in a ...