For the Government, the poverty data “will reflect the consequences of populism”

The official spoke today and attacked the previous administrations headed by Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. At the beginning of the press conference, Adorni He said that the poverty data to be reported today “will reflect the consequences of populism.”

“The inflation “It’s more poverty. The best way to fight poverty is to first fight inflation,” Adorni said. “Inflation is impoverishment, so the first thing we do is fight it,” he added.

In this regard, the presidential spokesman stressed that “the reconstruction of the country will take time” and that the Government took its first steps to stabilize the economy in these first ten months of management.

“We are carrying out the stabilization plan without economic shamanism. We have succeeded in stopping extortion in order to assist,” said the official.

“If hyperinflation had not been avoided, poverty would have gone from 40% to nearly 95% of the population. We were left on the brink of becoming a country with practically all its inhabitants poor,” he said.

INDEC will announce poverty for the first half of 2024

He INDEC will release poverty and indigence data for the first half of 2024Given the deterioration in real wages during the first half of the year, The number is expected to worsen Regarding prior registration and In the city it is rumored that it can even reach 55%.

Official statistics for the second half of 2023 indicated that the 41.7% of Argentines had incomes that did not cover the Total Basic Basket (CBT)which is used to determine the poverty line. Likewise, the 11.9% It also failed to satisfy the Basic Food Basket (CBA)the threshold of the poverty line.

This meant that, at the end of last year, were recorded approximately 19.5 million poor and 5.6 million destituteThese were the second worst indicators since INDEC restarted the series in 2016, only surpassed by those of the second half of 2020, marked by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.