The Unfinished Poverty Agenda: Why Latin America and the Caribbean Lag Behind Danny M. Leipziger. Compared with East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have made very little progress in reducing ...

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.

While poverty has grown in the United States, it's been shrinking in Central and South America.

Latin America has had its share of political instability and economic turmoil in recent years, and both Barack Obama and John McCain promise remedies. Sen. McCain's plans for the region don't come ...

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 ...

Latin America is home to just 8 percent of the world's population, but 33 percent of its homicides. In fact, just four countries in the region — Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela ...

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 ...

That year, 22.8 percent of those originally from Spanish-language countries of Latin America were poor. The percentage hasn’t risen that dramatically since then; it’s now at 25.6 percent.

Weaker macroeconomic performance and rising food costs have put the brakes on the rate of poverty decrease in Latin America, the United Nations' economic body for the region said on Thursday.

In the last 18 months, the infamously poor state of last-mile logistics in Latin America has carried a heavier price than ever. As anxious, confined populations turned to online transactions for ...