Poverty fell in the first year of Milei

I do not understand why it matters if there is not enough cheering and claps from more members of this expat forum. Even worse for you to state that many people here think this is terrible news. That is an incredible leap compared to you just feeling disappointed in people who may still doubt the data reported. This was only reported yesterday. The silence is fine. Does the leader need a parade or some blue ribbon ceremony?
Please re-read the first comments.
We seem to live in an age where objectivity no longer has a place in political discussions.
Instead of receiving news with objective or intelligent critiques, they are cast off immediately as being non-sensical or lies just because of "who" may be taking "credit" for them or what one choses to see or choses not to see in the same zero-sum footballista style like any Argentine politician who will always either stay silent on the positive results generated by other parties or distract by slinging denial or unrelated mud lest "the good news" threaten their own credibility, beliefs or history that they have constructed for themselves.

Again, for those that have no choice, living with $300 a month at 211% inflation on an upward trajectory is very different to living on $300 a month at 117% or 23% inflation on a downward trajectory - so it is beyond common sense how a downward tendency in the poverty rate (whatever the exact number may be) can be called nonsense, unless there is a bias affecting common sense. No parade or blue ribbon needed or being sought.

As for questioning the exact number, please check out the link from UCA that I posted that questions the exact number reported by INDEC and methodology used.
 
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Some expats are just pissed off that their dollars buy less than before and they have lost a lifestyle privilege that they enjoyed here (yet couldn't hope to enjoy in their home countries...) thanks to artificially "low" prices for those with dollars.
Amen ,
Thanks to CFK , we lived "High on the Hog" for ten years. As they say in Andalucia "Lo cantaooo y lo Bailaoo no me lo quita naiden"
The usual Google Translate deal, banner is in Castellano and story will initially appear in that tongue, but wait a few seconds and it will change to English.

"Bragging about yesterday's number is like getting off for a cigarette at a train stop. It's so ephemeral. According to the UCA (University of Catalonia), Cristina Fernández's poverty rate was 28 percent in 2014 .Chequeado estimates that inflation at that time averaged 30 percent . The Scalabrini Ortiz Institute estimated it at 46 percent in 2003 and less than 15 percent in 2014, amid a growing population. In 2013, it was below 13 percentage points.Milei brought poverty to 50-something in the first half of the year and then brought it back to 38. Macri drastically increased it in 2016, using his own figures, but unable to disguise the decline."


Note the above carefully - for poverty in 2014, Scalabrini Ortiz Institute said less than 15%, while UCA said 28%

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Note: UCA (University of Catalonia), should read UCA (University of California),
 
Some expats are just pissed off that their dollars buy less than before and they have lost a lifestyle privilege that they enjoyed here (yet couldn't hope to enjoy in their home countries...) thanks to artificially "low" prices for those with dollars.

The same expats, with a few exceptions, were deafeningly silent (if not outright defensive) on this forum to the increasing poverty, skyrocketing inflation, lack of structural reforms, mounting debt and loss of foreign reserves to keep the illusion of the currency alive all those years... yet suddenly come out screaming when it even looks as if the same things are being done by someone that politically they don't identify with / identify less with, even if that someone is showing some positive tendencies in their results.

And Argentinians should be ASHAMED of going on vacation to Brazil last summer to enjoy a lifestyle privilege they couldn't hope to enjoy back home thanks to artificially "high" prices for their pesos. They were deafeningly silent about the favelas, corruption, and loss of the rainforest.

You see...it goes both ways. Taking advantage of currency strengths is a common sense approach to traveling. Many countries have poverty, corruption, and need structural reforms. People are still going to travel to places where their hard earned money buys them a little more, no matter where they are from or their political slant.
 
These official calculations only include the country's 31 most populated urban centers with 100,000 or more inhabitants, which represents 30 million people, out of a total Argentine population of about 47 million.

And it doesn’t consider the near-poor; the many who have dropped from the middle class and live just above the poverty line.

If both groups are combined, nearly 80 percent of the Argentine population is poor.
 
Poverty shows in the small mom and pop corner stores.
  1. People ask for 1 toilet paper roll /break 4 roll standard pack
  2. Stores break the bulk oat meal packs in smaller 100 grs. plastic bags
 
Poverty shows in the small mom and pop corner stores.
  1. People ask for 1 toilet paper roll /break 4 roll standard pack
  2. Stores break the bulk oat meal packs in smaller 100 grs. plastic bags
Personally, I think it's great they do this. It blew my mind that I could buy one aspirin instead of a bottle of 100. Obviously the unit cost is higher, but I'm fairly certain everyone knows that.

Our local Coto mall has a large food court. During Alberto/Massa, it was empty at the end of the month. Nobody had any money left. I went last week, and despite it being the 29th of the month it was overflowing. I still think the vast majority of people are probably the same or worse than last year overall, but I know price stability is something that many Argentines haven't experienced in a while and it's allowed people to space out their consumption instead of spending it as quick as possible to avoid it losing value.
 
Personally, I think it's great they do this. It blew my mind that I could buy one aspirin instead of a bottle of 100. Obviously the unit cost is higher, but I'm fairly certain everyone knows that.

Our local Coto mall has a large food court. During Alberto/Massa, it was empty at the end of the month. Nobody had any money left. I went last week, and despite it being the 29th of the month it was overflowing. I still think the vast majority of people are probably the same or worse than last year overall, but I know price stability is something that many Argentines haven't experienced in a while and it's allowed people to space out their consumption instead of spending it as quick as possible to avoid it losing value.
Price stability...? my ....! prices go up every week. Eggs , bread, milk, veggies, etc .
The increase is not in any way near 2.5%..!
Large Coto malls in plush areas may not represent, lower middle class families, in desperate situation.
 
Price stability...? my ....! prices go up every week. Eggs , bread, milk, veggies, etc .
The increase is not in any way near 2.5%..!
Large Coto malls in plush areas may not represent, lower middle class families, in desperate situation.
You do understand that during Alberto, stores couldn't even put a price tag on store items? Builders wouldn't honor price quotes for longer than 48 hours? Adjustments were going up by double digits monthly? What we have now is a placid lake by comparison. I have even seen prices for some items in my area go down in the last few months, carne for example... most likely because of demand destruction. That's not to say that the general economic malaise isn't still awful, but price stability is awfully better than it was.
 
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