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International Business Times
International Business Times

To Make Ends Meet, Argentines Sell Their Possessions

Some 40 percent of Argentina's income earners work in the informal sector with no social benefits (Credit: AFP)

A street market in a Buenos Aires working-class neighborhood bustles with desperate Argentines who have taken to hawking their belongings to make ends meet as the economy sputters.

The market in Villa Fiorito -- the birthplace of football great Diego Maradona -- has gotten ever busier with an explosion in the number of so-called "blanket sellers" peddling household objects, items collected from the trash or goods bought with loans and displayed on blankets spread out on the pavement.

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