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Decline in poverty rates has stalled

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“Poverty affected 28 percent of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0 percent from 11.3 percent during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration”, revealed the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in its report “Social Panorama of Latin America”, presented on Jan. 26.