While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in … financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region’s slowing economic growth … crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC’s labor markets and …

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has made laudable progress in the past fifteen years in reducing poverty …, building the middle class, and promoting prosperity for all levels of society. Extreme poverty, defined in this region as life … larger number of people in the middle class than in poverty. Across this region of close to 600 million people, the poor have …

Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor … households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar to those witnessed between 2003 …-2006 despite a 2.8 percent decline in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms, poverty …

In 2012, the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region continued its successful drive to reduce poverty and build … the middle class. Poverty reduction was accompanied by strong income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population …'s poverty reduction strategy needs to focus on restoring growth and preserving macroeconomic stability, while reinforcing the …

Strong poverty reduction in Latin America resumed with the growth rebound in 2010, as both moderate and extreme poor … households benefitted from the recovery, accelerating poverty reduction to rates similar to those witnessed between 2003 …-2006 despite a 2.8 percent decline in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms, poverty …

For the last decade, economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has sharply accelerated, pushing poverty … problems make optimistic predictions less certain and threaten to undermine gains against poverty and inequality, it is … in the region have played a critical role in achieving the poverty declines of the last decade, with their labor market …

as the measure of welfare. The urban poverty profile is examined in each city, through migration, growth, and mobility …