In its Social Panorama of Latin America 2009, the institution projected that the region's poverty rate will rise by 1.1% and that extreme poverty will climb by 0.8% compared with 2008.

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 ...

Rural poverty in Brazil is extensive to 50.1% of the rural population; in Mexico, 40.1% and in Peru, 69.3%. At the other extreme comes Chile with a rural poverty index of 12.3%, which is even ...