Poverty in the 1990s

The 1990s saw a decline in the percentage of households and individuals living in poverty, as well as a reduction in the severity of poverty. In aggregate terms, this decrease helped offset the deterioration of the 1980s. Nevertheless, urban poverty and rural indigence rates are still considerably higher than they were 20 years ago. A positive development in the 1990s was the fact that poverty levels fell by more than 10 percentage points in Brazil, Chile and Panama, against a background of very different per capita growth rates.

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