Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday warned his vice-president, who had fiercely criticized the country’s new poverty definitions, saying that officials who publicly criticize the system “should withdraw from…
Colombia’s vice-president Monday slammed new definitions of poverty from the National Planning Department, saying “I don’t know what planet they live on.” According to the revised definitions a person is…
Colombia’s poverty reduction plan “merits a cautious welcome” as it recognizes inequality as a problem, but also introduces a way to measure poverty that instantly reduces the poverty rate without…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said the government’s poverty reduction goals will remain the same despite revised poverty figures. The Department of National Planning announced the number of Colombians…
Sixty indigenous families in Colombia have been selling handicrafts in the capital, Bogota, to cater to an influx of fans attending the ongoing youth soccer World Cup tournament as part…
President Juan Manuel Santos is popular among Colombians, but needs to address issues of unemployment, security, and poverty, according to a survey conducted by Centro Nacional de Consultaria. After 12…
Malnutrition in Colombia is most prevalent in the countryside, the country’s minister of agriculture reportedly said Monday. Agricultural Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo identified two reasons for which these areas continue…
Colombians are divided on whether they want to pay more taxes to fight inequality in the Andean nation, a survey published recently showed. Juan Camilo Plata, a researcher for the…
Almost half of Colombians are living below the poverty line, a representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced Tuesday. Colombia’s UNFPA representative Tania Patriota explained that 21 million…