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Weekly Report - 16 July 2015 (WR-15-28)
ARGENTINA: Poverty statistics provide some ammunition for Macri
More than 28% of Argentines live in poverty, according to an annual survey released by the social observatory of the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) on 14 July. The figure is up 1.3% on a 2014 survey, and means 11m Argentines are living below the poverty line, defined as Ar$5,717 (US$440). Mauricio Macri, the leading opposition contender for the presidency, seized on the survey and the government’s subsequent denial of the figures, as evidence of its “lies” over “insecurity […] inflation […] and poverty”.
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