Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Jamele Rigolini, Leonardo Lucchetti, Renos Vakis

One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the regions chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean takes a closer look at the region s entrenched poor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464806608
• ISBN13: 9781464806605
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"