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The magnitude of poverty in Latin America
- Source: CEPAL Review, Volume 1990, Issue 41, Sep 1990, p. 133 - 151
- Spanish
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- 13 Sep 1990
Abstract
In the last two decades, Latin America has gone through two opposite phases: the 1970s, which was a period of economic growth for most of the countries, and the 1980s, when the crisis seriously depressed the standard of living of broad sectors of the population. In order to appraise and interpret these changes properly, however, it is necessary to have at hand indicators which, individually or together, give an idea of the various dimensions of the social situation and the way they have evolved.
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