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 ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has heavily expanded his nation's presence in Latin America. Chinese largesse helps fund major development projects, but has come at the price of democracy and even ...

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 ...

Why the first Latin American pope couldn’t win back Latin America. During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography ...