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1. Absolute poverty
2. Income inequality
1. Absolute poverty
About 73 million Latin Americans have been lifted out of poverty since 2003. Between 2003 and 2010, the income of the average Latin American increased by more than 30 percent.
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Poverty in the chart below means below national poverty lines:
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2. Income inequality
While income inequality has risen in most parts of the world, the one big exception to the general upward trend is Latin America, long the world’s most unequal continent. Gini coefficients in most Latin American countries have fallen sharply over the past ten years (source).
Some data:
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Another graph, comparing income inequality in Latin American countries between 1990 and 2008 – countries below the diagonal have less inequality now, and the higher on the graph the more unequal the country is now compared to others:
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interesting stats. however i need a defination of “poverty”
I have recently come to chile to work and after 9 months it look like a whole lot more than 12% poverty to me
Some deifinitions here:
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/measuring-poverty-9-absolute-and-relative-poverty-lines/
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/measuring-poverty-7-different-types-of-poverty/
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/human-rights-facts-94-what-is-poverty-different-definitions-of-poverty-and-an-attempt-to-make-some-order/
No guarantee that any of these were used in calculating the data above.