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 a report on ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The number of people living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped to its lowest level in three decades due to higher wages, the UN's regional economic ...

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 ...

Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published on Tuesday.

AT A GLANCE. Overall, a total of 26-38% of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean could be exposed to Generative AI. Generative AI could result in a productivity-enhancing transformation of 8-14% of ...

VERÓNICA AMARANTE, MARTÍN BRUN, Cash Transfers in Latin America, Economía, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Fall 2018), pp. 1-31. Free online reading for over 10 ... No. 1, Fall 2018 Cash Transfers in Latin America: ...

Growing job income helped lift 1 million people out of poverty this year in Latin America and the Caribbean, helping reduce the region's poverty rate to the lowest in three decades, the U.N.'s ...

June 4 (UPI) --Latin America is facing an escalating education crisis as school dropout rates continue to climb, affecting not only the region's poorest countries but also those with historically ...

“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 ...