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…
According to the United Nations, large-scale coal mining in northern Colombia has contributed to increased poverty, the Spanish EFE news agency reported Friday.
President Juan Manuel Santos claimed on Wednesday that Colombia will be able to eradicate extreme poverty before the end of the decade.
Immigrants from Colombia have the lowest poverty rate among latino nationalities in the United States, according to a report released Wednesday by the City University of New York (CUNY).
In a report released Thursday, Colombia’s National Agency for Overcoming Extreme Poverty (ANSPE) claims it has lifted tens of thousands of families out of extreme poverty over the past two…
The Colombian welfare system can be characterized as much by its ineffective Kafkaesque bureaucratic nature as by its neglect. Among the hills of southwestern Antioquia, in the municipality of Ciudad Bolivar,…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday claimed his administration had lifted 2.5 million people from poverty.
Colombia has the most unequal urban areas in Latin America, according to the United Nations, with the country’s second-largest city Medellin singled out as a hotbed of inequality.
A research paper published on Thursday claims that poverty throughout Colombia was reduced in between July 2011 and June 2012, but that millions of households are still on incomes deeming…