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.

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million people live in poverty, with 82 million in extreme poverty, points out a report from the UN Economic Commission for the region, ECLAC.

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 ...