According to CEPAL, Argentina is the only country where wages have fallen to 10%

The study shows that in the first quarter of 2018, wage developments in Argentina resulted in a loss of almost 6 percentage points in real terms, in the first three months of this year, the loss exceeds 10%, being the only country to record a decline among the group comprising Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.

Moreover, in their "Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean", ECLAC badysts maintained their projection of the decline in economic activity in Argentina by 1.8% for 2019.

"For the remainder of 2019, the contractual bias of fiscal and monetary policies, as well as the weaker economic growth in Brazil, are expected to have a negative impact on public and private consumption, investment and exports in the manufacturing sector, and the growth of the economy. a slight recovery in real wages will have a small positive effect on domestic demand, "said the ECLAC study.

From the Observatory of International Affairs and Foreign Policy (OCIPEx), they point out that the reality described in the report with regard to Argentina is doubly impressive because, in addition to lower wagesThe report also highlights other equally worrying phenomena, such as the drop in the number of jobs registered, the increase in underemployment, the increase in the informality of work and the consequent increase in self-employment", All the elements composing a card related to the precariousness of the job.

Just a few days ago, a group of organizations formed within the United Nations (UN) declared that in the last two years (between 2016 and 2018), The number of people suffering from moderate or severe food insecurity in our country has increased by nearly six million people.

According to the report "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019", the number of people facing "moderate or severe food insecurity" in our country increased from 8.3 million in 2014-2016 to 14.2 million between 2016 and 2018. This represents a 71% increase, one of the largest jumps recorded in the world with Nigeria, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sierra Leone and Botswana.

The study was prepared by five multilateral institutions: the United Nations Food Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations world food. (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The estimates presented in the 2019 edition of this study are based on a combination of data: those collected by FAO in more than 140 countries with the help of a survey model based on a scale of experience of food insecurity (FIES). and those compiled by national institutions in a number of countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia using FIES or similar questionnaires on food safety.