Tag: poverty

• Thursday, May 5th 2022 - 10:21 UTC

  Multi dimensional poverty conditions affect 25 million Argentines, 54,9% of the population

  

  Some 25 million Argentines, 54,9% of the whole population can be described as poor, following monetary criteria and simultaneously a multi-dimensional approach. This approach refers to such structural factors as housing, basic services, education, employment, and health attention.

• Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  In Tierra del Fuego, 39% of the population are below the poverty line

  

  Some 39% of the population from the province of Tierra del Fuego are below the poverty line according to the latest numbers from the first half of this year and released by the Argentine official stats office, Indec.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Poverty on the rise in Brazil

  

  Brazil's poverty indexes are on the rise despite President Jair Bolsonaro's claims that his actions, however controversial from a sanitary viewpoint regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, were always aimed at sustaining the country's economy.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Latin America unemployment in 2021 forecast at 11.1%, according to ILO

  

  The International Labor Organization (ILO) Friday issued a report according to which 28 million Latin Americans are in a situation of working poverty due to the pandemic, for an overall unemployment rate of 11.1% in the region for the year 2021.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Pandemic has pushed 20 million Latin Americans into poverty, UN report

  

  More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemic-plagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. economic agency for the region announced this week.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  President Xi announces end of poverty in China, on Communist Party's 100th anniversary

  

  China's President Xi Jinping officially declared Thursday that the country has completed its “arduous task” of eradicating extreme poverty, saying 98.99 million people have been lifted out of poverty over the past eight years.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2021 - 18:40 UTC

  According to Maduro, extreme poverty in Venezuela reaches 4%; experts place it at 79.3%

  

  After greeting his cabinet, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday “we are back” to the legislative body that he did not attend in 4 years, a period in which the opposition-controlled the National Assembly. In a special session of a parliament now controlled by chavismo, Maduro offered his first annual message in four years. Among the figures he gave during his speech, the poverty indicators managed by the State standout: 4% of extreme poverty and 17% of “general” poverty.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Argentine bishops: With Covid-19 taking lives and 50% poverty, it's no time to address abortion

  

  The president of the Argentine bishops’ conference called on lawmakers to “reflect” as they prepare to debate a bill that would legalize abortion in the South American country.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina reaches 44,2% of the population, with special impact on households with children

  

  Some 18 million people, 44,2% of the Argentine population live in poverty conditions, and indigence trapped 10,1%, during the third quarter of 2020, according to the Argentina Catholic University Social Debt Observatory.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  UN agency advises Latin American to stimulate economies and help contain poverty and unemployment

  

  Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must continue to ratchet up stimulus to beat back the devastating economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN agency ECLAC said in a report issued this week.