Argentina is slowly recovering from an unprecedented economic crisis.

However, enormous problems still remain. Some recent data include:

• 27% of Argentines live in poverty, and 9% in extreme poverty, by the most conservative measurements;

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"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

"The fruits of the rapid expansion of commerce, construction, corporate profits and exports are not being shared by all, and as a result, economic and social inequality have intensified."

"In the mid-1970s, the most affluent 10 percent of Argentina's population had an income 12 times that of the poorest 10 percent. By the mid-1990s, that figure had grown to 18 times the income of the poor, and by 2002, the peak of the crisis, the income of the richest segment was 43 times that of the poorest. The situation has improved only slightly since then."

Read the article on The New York Times following this link