US EditionSuccess Under the Magnifying Glass: the Controversy About the Number Pushing Down Poverty Grows
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Estimates of wage developments, especially in the informal sector, generated controversy
A report by the Argentine Center for Political Economy (CEPA) put under the spotlight the functioning of the INDEC during the current government and warned about “methodological challenges and questions” that, according to the analysis, alter the reading of key variables of the economy. The work maintains that different technical changes and institutional decisions impacted on the measurement of wages, inflation, poverty and level of activity. O…
Private sector analysts add to the controversy and warn that the sharp drop in poverty reported by Javier Milei's management is explained more by methodological changes and improvements in measurement than by a real recovery in household purchasing power. The recent drop in poverty rates in Argentina has generated intense technical debate and questioning by the UCA's Social Debt Observatory. While official data from the Indec show a pronounced d…
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