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.

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

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 ...

According to the latest report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the climate crisis inflicted lasting damage, ...

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 ...

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 America and the Caribbean and the least developed countries. Poverty has various manifestations: hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic ...

The Latin America and the Caribbean Country Gender Scorecards is a ... The 2025 edition introduces a poverty-gender nexus component. Grounded in evidence-based practices, the tool also offers policy ...

Crime, violence and poverty are often depicted in films about Latin America. But Latin American Film Festival of Dallas co-founders Jhon Hernandez and Tony Nguyen want to challenge those stereotypes.