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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Sun May 25, 2014, 11:53 AM May 2014

Extreme poverty increases Venezuela National Institute of Statistics (Spanish)

Extreme poverty increased from 7% in 2012 to 10% in 2013. Overall poverty increased to 27% as previously noted here.

http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/actualidad/economia/crece-la-pobreza-y-la-pobreza-extrema-en-venezuela.aspx

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Extreme poverty increases Venezuela National Institute of Statistics (Spanish) (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 May 2014 OP

kick nt Bacchus4.0 Aug 2014 #1

Another interesting thing the INE report shows... Oele Aug 2014 #2

Bacchus4.0

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Mon Aug 11, 2014, 05:59 AM

Aug 2014

Oele

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2. Another interesting thing the INE report shows...

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 06:53 AM

Aug 2014

is that poverty reduction was already happening in the pre-chavez years and actually slowed down when Chavez came to power.

Poverty increased between 2002 and 2003, almost back to the level of 1997.

The only years with a significant reduction of poverty were 2004 - 2007.

http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Social/Pobreza/xls/Serie_Pobreza_1s997-2s2013.xls

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