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Unit 4 Macro: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
7th July 2012
Latin America continues to have the biggest gap between rich and poor in the world but progress is being made in reducing the scale of extreme poverty especially from specially targeted poverty-reduction programmes initiated by governments in making sure that each household has an income. This short news report focuses on the battle to cut the estimated 170 million people who live in absolute poverty.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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