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There would be 500,000 poor people that are not counted by Indec

Artículo en La Nación: Habría unos 500.000 pobres más que los que mide el Indec "If we weigh the real inflation, it is very likely that the number of poor households will increase. But, measuring with an index that does not reflect the actual rate of inflation, it is most likely that poverty will appear to have been reduced" - Jorge Colina (Researcher at the Institute for Argentine Social Development)

"The Indec (Argentine index of inflation) tends to undervalue the food basket and will present a level of poverty below what actually exists" - Claudio Lozano (Deputy CTA-Capital)

"The reliability of poverty indexes is very important to evaluate how the economy is evolving and what impact it is having on the distribution of income, because some public policies, such as the amount of social assistance plans there should be, depend on this." - Luciana Díaz Frers (Director of the Fiscal Policy Program of Cippec)

Read the article (in Spanish) in La Nación, following this link

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