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After INDEC statistics 4.5 million poor hidden



Is because it makes its calculation of a basket whose price is less than real.

INDEC for the country has 4.8 million poor. But other measures have 9.3 million. The difference is not minor: are 4.5 million more or less, depending how you look at the statistics.

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Such a huge difference is because the INDEC estimates the poverty line based on "official" prices of a basket. Sheds for a couple with 2 children $ 1,165.47 to June 2010. Comparing this amount with the income of individuals and families, concludes that in the first half of 2010 to 12% of the population had incomes that did not cover the value and therefore was poor.

Ments will make the same basket but accused of the actual prices paid by consumers. This gives, according FEEL-$ 1,902.70 per month, also last June. Comparing this against the same income amount reported by the INDEC, conclude that the poverty rate of 23.3% of the population, almost double.

Larger the difference in the measurement of poverty. For the official body of 3.1% (ie 1, 2 million), and private is 8.2% (3.3 million). "Both indicators show a low resistance since late 2006, when inflation starts accelerating," he says about the latest report from the Economic Research Department of Banco Ciudad.

However, "the poverty rate of 23.3% nationally hides large regional disparities. Northern Argentina is the area hardest hit by the scourge of poverty, with rates above 40% in the Northeast and close to 34% in the northwest. That mark after eight years of strong growth, considerable areas of the country continue socially neglected, "he adds. But the high concentration of population in the GBA, 41.4% of the poor (almost 4 million) reside in suburban Buenos Aires.

According to the report, current levels of poverty are explained by the informal work, which impacts 35% of employees who earn less than those in white-and inflation, which stood at 25% annually. And to a lesser extent, unemployment.

Another fact is that, like what happens in the rest of Latin America the poverty rate remains largely unchanged over the past three years. And this is because "in 2008, food inflation and the international crisis in 2009 prevented further improvements, while in 2010 the gains have been marginal."

In Argentina, poverty declined, in part by the child allowance, from 27% in 2006 to 23.3% in mid-2010 as food prices rose one and a half more than the average for goods and services.

In November, the INDEC poverty line for a family was $ 1,244.11, while the alternative measures valued at $ 2,055 per month.

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