Ismael Bermudez
03/31/2021 16:00
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 03/31/2021 4:07 PM
During 2020, with the fall in economic activity and income for the majority of the population, and in the midst of the pandemic and quarantine,
poverty rose from 35.5% to 42% of the population
.
In a year, 3 million poor people
were
added: there
were 16 million citizens and today there are 19 million
, projecting the data that INDEC released today to the entire country.
Poverty in democracy
" In percentage
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Sources:
INDEC (1988 to 2006 and 2016 to 2018) UCA (2007 to 2015) |
* Following the resignation of De la Rúa
, Ramón Puerta, Alberto Rodríguez Saa and Eduardo Camaño succeed each other.
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These records are dangerously close to the 47% observed in 1990 - hyperinflation - and the historical maximum recorded in 2002, which was 57.5% as a consequence of the economic and social explosion that the fall of the exchange rate convertibility left behind.
The jump is also dramatic compared to September 2017, when it was lowered to 28.6%.
Today there are 3 million more poor people than a year ago and 7.7 million more than at the end of 2017. Compared to the first half of 2020, when poverty reached 40.9%, they represent half a million more poor people.
Even more dramatic is that
extreme poverty or extreme poverty grew from 8% (3.6 million people) at the end of 2019 to 10.5% (4.7 million people)
.
Compared to the end of 2017, there are 2.6 million more homeless.
These figures refer to poverty
due to lack or lack of income in relation to a “poverty line” or basic family basket
(married couple and 2 children) that as of last February was valued by the INDEC at $ 57,997.48.
And that in March it will be around $ 60,000.
Despite
official aid
- for example, the parents of 4.4 million girls and boys charge the AUH (Universal Child Allowance) - the report shows that among those under 14 years of age poverty increased from 52.3% to 57.7% or 6.3 million poor girls and boys.
At the end of 2017, poverty among minors was 39.7%.
This means that almost 6 out of 10 children under the age of 14 - live in poor households.
The
Buenos Aires suburbs
continues to be a “social powder keg”.
In one year, it registered a rise in poverty
from 40.5% to 51%: it increased from almost 5 million to 6.3 million poor people.
Of those numbers, homelessness increased from 11.3% to 15.2% and now reaches 1,900,000 people.
The Minister of Social Development,
Daniel Arroyo
told
Clarín
that without social aid, such as Power Work, AUH, IFE or Alimentar card, the poverty of 10.5% would have jumped to 27.9% and poverty from 42 to 51 %.
"
The situation is critical, there is more activity, but the problem continues to be the price of food,"
emphasized Arroyo, who acknowledged that "reducing poverty requires growth, expanding the productive pie and also
promoting private investment
. As well as last year my task was to attend to the food emergency, this year it is to
transform social plans into work
, urbanize popular neighborhoods and create school gardens because child poverty is the most critical in the entire country. "
Meanwhile, for the economist
Claudio Lozano
, director of Banco Nación, 42% of semester poverty is broken down into 38.7% in the third quarter and 45.3% in the fourth.
In relation to the hardest quarter of the quarantine when poverty was 47%, "we climbed again in the fourth quarter to levels practically similar to the second."
And he adds: "with a level of activity practically similar to that prior to the pandemic, poverty remains at the same levels of the strictest quarantine and maximum drop in activity."
As of April 2016, when the INDEC started a new series of poverty, for the second quarter of 2016 it measured poverty at 30.3%, then it fell to 25.7% in the second half of 2017, and from Hence, it did not stop increasing: in 2018 it rose to 32%, in 2019 to 35.5% and in the second half of 2020 to 42%.
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