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Weekly Report - 1 May 2014 (WR-14-17)
ARGENTINA: Speculation rife about official poverty rates
Argentina’s national statistics institute, Indec, was praised earlier this year for producing, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a new consumer price index (CPI), which appears to have provided the basis for more accurate official inflation figures. But government critics have pointed out that Indec has failed to produce any kind of data at all on Argentina’s poverty rate. With no official information to go by, researchers from private institutions have produced some alarming statistics.
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