Colombia’s poverty rate dropped 3.2 percentage points to 39.3% in 2021 as the country tried to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, according to statistics agency DANE. This implies that an…
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that the food security of Colombia’s poor could deteriorate in the coming months. The FAO added Colombia to a list of…
Colombia’s high level of inequality “is a core constraint to economic growth and social progress” in the South American country, according to the World Bank. In a report, the international…
Poverty in Quibdo soared to the point that three in 10 people in the city in west Colombia are trying to live off less than $39 (COP149,000) a month last…
The coronavirus is disproportionately killing Colombia’s poor, who make up more than 60% of the fatalities registered by the country’s statistics agency DANE. In a report, DANE said that 64.4%…
The coronavirus pandemic made Colombia’s poverty rate one of the highest in South America, according to the United Nations. The UN’s Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)…
Poverty and inequality reached such levels in Colombia in 2020 that they could destabilize society and impede meaningful economic recovery. Fortunately, not all is lost. Multiple international institutions have upgraded…
An estimated seven million of Colombia’s 50 million people are starving, according to multiple estimates, without the government formulating any response. Both economic think tank Fedesarollo and the United Nations’…
Diana Rojas doesn’t care if the paramilitaries kill her. The government of Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque killed two of her three children, according to the single mother. Rojas is…