More than half of Argentina's 46 million people are now living in poverty, new figures indicate, in a blow to right-wing President Javier Milei's efforts to turn around the country's beleaguered ...

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 ...

The report for the first half of 2024 showed that 52.9 percent of Argentines, or 15.7 million people, now live in poverty and nearly one in five are indigent. The figure was up from 41.7 percent ...

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 26 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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