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In Colombia, the results on food security were published, and despite the decrease in the percentage of households with food insecurity, the deterioration of employment, high food prices and increases in services and rents, reduce the chances of major improvements in this indicator, at least in 2024.
The labor poverty indicator in Mexico was 35.8% during the first quarter of 2024, reaching its lowest level in nearly 17 years, specifically, since the third quarter of 2007, when it was 35.2%.
The monetary poverty rate increased from 27.5% in 2022 to 29.0% in 2023 (BBVA Research estimate published in March of this year: 29.1%), moving further away from the pre-pandemic level (the lowest in 16 years) and returning to a record similar …
Peru's poverty data for 2023 showed a significant setback. This evolution reveals the need to relaunch the policies and reforms that accelerated growth between 2004 and 2019.
Poverty was reduced in Colombia last year. In 2023, 338 thousand people were lifted out of multidimensional poverty, bringing poverty from 12.9% of the population in 2022 to 12.1% in 2023. And it was reduced mainly in the countryside. Informali…
Care work has a significant impact on women's approach to work. Promoting between family members a balance in the time spent on care and unpaid work would make it possible to increase women's labor participation, their income and their individual as well as collective well-being.
In 2022, poverty was 36.6% of the population, compared to 39.7% in 2021. With this, 1.3 million people were lifted out of poverty in Colombia between 2021 and 2022. Economic growth was the main factor that reduced poverty, an effect that was partly moderated by inflation.
On August 10, Coneval published the official measurement of poverty in Mexico, which contemplates the components of social rights together with that of income, and found that in 2022 there were 46.8 million people in a situation of poverty (36.…
In this press article, a proxy for possession of financial products is presented between people with some degree of poverty vs. those with labor informality (non-poor), to contrast and show that the latter, despite being potentially more likely…
At the Forum "Colombia's Social challenges" a summarised version of the report "How is the social situation of Colombians?” which analyses variables related to the social situation, characterises the main poverty figures and concludes with the …
A description of the social situation of Colombians, not only with figures on poverty and income, gender gaps, labor market, among others, but also identifying its determinants, their performance and some policy proposals to achieve a better social balance of the country.
From its lowest point, in 2013, to 2022, remittances to Mexico have grown a total of 162.3%, positioning it as one of the main sources of foreign currency for the country. Thus, an important question to analyze is: Does Mexico receive more currency flow through remittances or through Foreign Direct Investment?
