The Indec will publish today the poverty rate for the second half of 2024: a considerable decrease is expected

Private projections mark an improvement in social indicators for the second half of last year from the economic recovery

By the second half of 2024, according to INDEC's Permanent Household Survey, poverty in the Greater Resistencia urban agglomeration reached 60.8% of people, representing a reduction of 4.4 percentage points (pp) compared to the same half of the previous year (1 of 2023) and 15.4 points compared to the previous half. In the last six months, 64,437 people have ceased to be poor in this agglomeration, according to a report by the consulting firm Po…

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses indicated that 32.3 per cent of households in the main agglomeration are under the poverty line, while 6.2 per cent are in extreme poverty. On Monday, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), presented its report on the incidence of poverty and indigence [...]

Indec released the data from the second half of 2024, with high expectations from the Milei government.

The monetary poverty rate in Paraguay was 20.1% in 2024, at the lowest level since the introduction of the current measurement method in 1997/98. This was announced by the National Statistical Institute (INE) on Thursday (27). The figure represents a significant decrease compared to 2023 and marks the second year in a row with a reduction. [...] The post Paraguay records the lowest poverty rate since 1997 first appeared on latinapress news.

This Monday, March 31, the INDEC will release the poverty data for the second half of 2024. According to specialists, the index could have closed last year by 37 per cent, due to the decline in inflation. As regards indigence, the projections indicate that it would range between 8 and 10 per cent, a significant decrease compared to 18.1 per cent in the first half of 2024 and 11.9 per cent in the second half of 2023. These data would reflect two …