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The basic food basket increased 3.4% in April and a family needed almost $ 63 thousand not to be poor

2021-05-21T07:13:41.643Z


According to the Indec report, the basic food basket rose 3.9%. 05/18/2021 16:08 Clarín.com Economy Updated 05/18/2021 4:20 PM The Total Basic Basket (CBT) registered an increase of 3.4% in April, so a family group made up of two adults and two minors needed to have an income of more than $ 63,000 in order not to fall below the poverty line. In addition, it experienced an increase of 47.8% compared to the same month of 2020. For its part, the Basic Food Ba


05/18/2021 16:08

  • Clarín.com

  • Economy

Updated 05/18/2021 4:20 PM

The

Total Basic Basket

(CBT) registered an

increase of 3.4%

in April,

so a family group made up of two adults and two minors needed to have an income of more than $ 63,000 in order not to fall below the poverty line.

In addition, it experienced an increase of 47.8% compared to the same month of 2020.

For its part, the

Basic Food Basket

(CBA) rose

3.9%

in April, compared to March, and showed an interannual variation of 49.1%.

Thus, a family of four needed $ 26,677 to escape the poverty line.

The CBA responds to the

essential kilocaloric and protein normative requirements

for a certain family group.

#DatoINDEC


A family of four needed $ 62,957.54 to overcome the poverty line in April 2021: 3.4% more than the previous month and 47.8% more year-on-year https://t.co/8JjZK3Oprw pic.twitter .com / VagBf1K4sG

- INDEC Argentina (@INDECArgentina) May 18, 2021

The basic food basket includes Bread, water cookies, sweet cookies, rice, wheat flour, other flours (corn), noodles, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar, sweets (sweet potato, jam, dulce de leche), dried legumes ( lentils, peas), vegetables (chard, onion, lettuce, tomato perita, carrot, squash, canned tomato), fruits (apple, tangerine, orange, banana, pear) meats (roast, common meat, backbone, shoulder, minced meat, buttock, chicken, fish meat) giblets (liver), cold cuts, eggs and milk.

It also includes cheese (cream cheese, cuartirolo cheese, grated cheese), yogurt, butter, oil, non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks, concentrated juices, soda), alcoholic beverages (beer, wine) fine salt, condiments (mayonnaise, concentrated broths) vinegar, coffee and herb.


Meanwhile, to determine the CBT, the family basket is used as a basis and

the prices of non-food goods and services are added to it.

In March, the CBA rose 4.5%, while the variation of the total basic basket (CBT) was 5%.


Source: clarin

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