Poverty in Latin America decreased in 2023 to affect 27.3% of the population, down 1.5 percentage points from the year before and more than a 5-point drop from 2020, when economies were severely ...

But this does not fully solve the puzzle of why poverty has been so stubbornly persistent, ... just as it has improved the lives of workers in Europe and Latin America.

The Latin America of the 21st century has failed to become a policy priority for a United States perpetually distracted by wars and rivalries in other parts of the world.

Latin America and the Caribbean as a region is a full 11 percentage points below the global average (45% versus 56%) in terms of the importance of trade for their economies, and far from emerging ...

Latin America was to some degree shielded from global events such as the 2008 financial crisis, and it benefited from China’s rapid growth. During the first decade of this century, Chinese demand ...

The topic: Latin America’s frustratingly slow economic growth. I sensed their pain over the lack of progress in their home countries and the region as a whole.

“We are far above the level of violence that would be predicted given the region’s level of poverty and inequality. We then have to ask why the region has so much organized crime, and why is it so ...

They have even pulled off remarkable but often overlooked successes, nearly halving the share of Latin Americans living in poverty since 2000, taming inflation, ending a long tradition of military ...