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Argentina poverty rate soars to nearly 53% in first half of 2024

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23 days ago

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's poverty rate rocketed to 52.9% in the first half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Thursday, surging from 40.1% a year earlier.

For the second half of last year, INDEC had reported a rate of 41.7%.

(Reporting by Hernan Nessi and Sarah Morland; Editing by Kylie Madry)

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