Maps are engaging and can provide lots of information in an immediate and accessible way for policy makers. By drawing on existing survey and census data, we’re mapping the prevalence and severity of ...

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% ...

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 ...

A World Bank study reveals that 184 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are vulnerable to poverty, with climate ...

Latin America has experienced significant advances in the reduction of poverty but has barely improved the deep social inequalities that limit its development according to Heraldo Muñoz ...

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 ...

Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America will be of great interest not only to scholars of Latin American politics, but also to students of development policy throughout the world." ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC ...

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reports that poverty in Latin America fell to a historic low of 27.3% in 2023. This marks a 1.5% decrease from 2022 and a 5% decline ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...