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Tag: Gonzalo Hernandez

  • Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:49 UTC

    In Mexico, Latam second largest economy over half the are catalogued as poor

    Last year 53.3 million our of 117.3m Mexicans were poor and 11.5 million lived in extreme poverty

    Poverty in Mexico, including extreme cases, decreased slightly between 2010 and 2012, reported the National Council for Evaluation of Social Development Policy. Official stats show that poverty in Mexico, Latam’ second largest economy went from 46.1% of the population in 2010 to 45.5% in 2012, while extreme poverty fell from 11.3% to 9.8%.