Pobreza na Argentina

Argentina discloses poverty data after three-year gap

Al Jazeera•September 30, 2016

Buenos Aires - Argentina's government has released poverty figures for the first time in three years, revealing that nearly one-third of the population is living below the breadline. The news came as a shock as the previous administration of Cristina Kirchner had stopped measuring poverty rates more than a decade ago. In Argentina, you are officially poor if your family of four has less than $800 a month to live on. The new statistics underscore the difficulty of achieving President Mauricio Macri's goal of "zero poverty". "What we are starting to have in Argentina are real statistics. What we had until a few months ago was a fiction with no reality. It was a manipulation," Macri said. "We believe

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