Thus, as a result of the prolonged health and social crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the extreme poverty rate in Latin America has risen from 13.1% of the population in 2020 to 13.8% ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million people live in poverty, with 82 million in extreme poverty, points out a report from the UN Economic Commission for the region, ECLAC.

Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing poverty rates since the 1980s, largely because of sluggish growth. Nearly 36 percent of the ...

Clearly, the bases of prosperity and what must be done to tackle abject poverty and South-North ... engine of the world ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 28 developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and ...

Place is one of the best predictors of poverty, but with the emphasis so often on national averages, the action we take to address it can be poorly targeted and unsuitable for those most in need. This ...

But despite its potential, the region is still underdeveloped and profoundly unequal, with about one-third of its people living in poverty. Latin America has long been a region of paradox and ...

Latin American Film Festival of Dallas is kicking off March 21. The festival will feature 11 films from Argentina, Brazil, ...

and protecting the poor and vulnerable from shocks Despite a decline in both monetary and multidimensional poverty rates since 2000, Haiti remains among the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin ...

Land reform was at the time a roiling issue in Latin America, where approximately 90 ... was one of the causes at the root of international poverty. But he considered confiscation a “very ...