Poverty rises to over 52 percent in Milei’s Argentina

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President Javier Milei’s government has applied a drastic austerity program with the aim of eliminating the budget deficit and taming chronic inflation.
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Source: AFP

Poverty in Argentina rose to over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to data released Thursday by the INDEC statistics agency.

The report for the first half of 2024 showed that 52.9 percent of Argentines,…

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