Poverty and extreme poverty in Argentina dropped significantly over the past year, although the levels remain higher than those indicated by official data, a respected watchdog warns.
According to a report published Thursday by the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (ODSA-UCA), poverty stood at 36.3 percent and extreme poverty at 6.8 percent at the end of the third quarter.
That’s a steep year-on-year fall from the 45.6 percent and 11.2 percent respectively in the same period of 2024, the ODSA-UCA report indicated.
According to the watchdog’s data, poverty fell by 9.3 points compared to the same period la
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