"During the April-September 2025 semester, household incomes grew above the cost of the baskets, inducing a drop in the measurement of poverty and indigence," the academic document concludes.
In the year-on-year comparison, the basic baskets rose between 24% and 26%, while total family incomes of the lower sectors increased by more than 60%. That differential allowed poverty to fall to levels not seen since the early part of the last decade.
The UTDT report confirms what consumption and employment indicators had already anticipated: the "Milei effect" not only stabilized the economy, but began to generate tangible results in daily life. With inflation declining, the recovery of real wages, and the restoration of credit, the country is witnessing a phenomenon that few believed possible after years of populism and uncontrolled monetary issuance.
In the words of economists from the university itself, the results "reveal a process of economic normalization that translates into social improvement."
