While President Juan Manuel Santos praised a drop in Colombia’s GINI coefficient, the country’s statistics agency on Wednesday released statistics showing that poverty in 2016 went up for the first time…
Colombia is Latin America’s second most unequal country in the Americas after Honduras, according to updated World Bank statistics.
Some 820,000 Colombians were lifted above the poverty line in 2013, the government statistics agency said Friday. The annual DANE report also showed a growing gap between rich and poor…