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 ...

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 ...

By this measure, however, most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have poverty rates that are much lower than their national poverty rates. The level of economic development in the ...

By Michel Haoses.A report recently published by the World Bank Group report titled “Leveling the Playing Field,” addresses structural inequalities and challenges faced by the African region.Africa, ...

Latin America and the Caribbean and the least developed countries. Poverty has various manifestations: hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic ...