Global Economic Crisis Adds 9 Million to Ranks of Latin American Poor
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The current global economic crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean predicts.
SANTIAGO – The current global crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has concluded.
In its Social Panorama of Latin America 2009, the Santiago-based institution projected that the region’s poverty rate will rise by 1.1 percent and that extreme poverty will climb by 0.8 percent compared with 2008.
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