Overview

• Argentine researchers say the reported drop in poverty has not translated into higher consumption, citing price shifts that raised fixed household costs not captured in standard baskets.
• Two INDEC chiefs who oversaw poverty and consumer-price metrics, Guillermo Manzano and Georgina Giglio, resigned, intensifying questions about recent measurements.
• INDEC’s delayed switch to 2017–2018 household-expenditure weights could change poverty, inflation and wage series once applied, adding uncertainty to current readings.
• An ODSA-UCA report finds 23.5% of Argentine households in multidimensional poverty and over 35% with two or more deprivations, while indigence fell from 11.9% to 3.3% in late 2024, a drop linked to AUH and Tarjeta Alimentar transfers.
• INEGI reports Mexico’s poverty fell to 29.6% in 2024 (38.5 million people) with gains tied to minimum-wage hikes and social programs, though critics question independence after CONEVAL functions moved and state data such as Sonora’s show lingering gaps in health and social security.