Headlines:
| More Caribbean people sink into poverty |
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| Friday, 20 November 2009 | |
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The Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says an additional nine million people have sunk into
poverty this year. ECLAC says the number of poor in the region, including the Caribbean rose for the first time in six years, from 180 million to 189 million. ECLAC says the nine million represents almost a quarter of the population that had already overcome poverty between 2002 and 2008 due to greater economic growth, the expansion of social spending and better income distribution. The UN body is predicting that the number of truly destitute will reach 76 million, up from 71 million last year. |