2023-12-04 22:52:05
A few days following leaving power, the president Alberto Fernandez questioned the measurement made by the INDEC on the poverty rate.
Alberto Fernández: “I don’t think there is 40% poverty, people lie when answering so they don’t get the plan”
“Poverty is measured through the permanent household survey, it is a survey and what I I’m afraid that people don’t tell the whole truth. when the pollster asks,” the president commented in an interview with the Argentine News Agency.
Pointing out, furthermore, that he does not believe that this will be achieved 40.1% poverty that the Indec points out. “I think that poverty is poorly measured, if there were such an amount of poverty, Argentina would be destroyed,” he said.
However, Augustine SalviaDirector of the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (UCA), stated in dialogue with The Nation+ that “for an Argentina that has been undergoing a process of so much decline and postponement, there is even indicators above of the income problems that mark poverty above 40%.”
Salvia maintained that the problem It does not lie in the measurementsbut in the policies implemented.
“It is not a problem that people lie or tell the truth Depending on their income, it is enough to fight (inflation) every day, going out to work to fight it and guarantee a subsistence income that many of them does not allow them to escape povertybut at least they cover the basic baskets.”
Regarding this, the specialist commented that today, the 44% of households receive an income transfer or a public assistanceeven so, it is not enough because “they get out of destitution, but not out of poverty.”
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Where 40% of the household budget uses state assistance, but the 60% comes from indigent work.
“There is a problem of overflowing inflation. It means that medical care is reduced, it is not possible to buy medicines, that investment in human capital and education for children is postponed, that fixing the house or having a vacation break becomes impossible,” added the sociologist.
Finally, regarding Fernández’s statements, he indicated that: “I think that putting this up for discussion at this time not only seems strange or strange, but implausible, is approaching ridiculous”.
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