Which are the countries most effective in reducing poverty and inequality?

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, December 20th 2010 - 06:09 UTC

Which are the countries most effective in reducing poverty and inequality?

Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela are the countries which most reduced inequality and poverty during the last decade in Latinamerica, according to Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cepal.

“There’s a big cut when one compares the decade of the nineties in Argentina, together with Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela, they are the countries which most reduced inequality and poverty”, said Ms Barcena interviewed by the Buenos Aires press.

“We can say Latinamerica is nowadays a progressive region of the world, since the only way out of inequality is with jobs, but jobs with rights and protection”.

“Progressive countries leave a very positive legacy, since there is no way back for social policies. Social expenditure is not lost, on the contrary it has become the dynamo for several economies” underlined Ms Barcena who nevertheless pointed out that “investment in science and technology is one of the region’s main deficits”, and must be addressed if the path to effectively eliminate poverty is to continue.

More:
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/12/20/which-are-the-countries-most-effective-in-reducing-poverty-and-inequality

[marmar]

1. The Chavez haters aren't going to like this.

nt

[stray cat]

2. So making everyone poor is good outcome to avoid inequality at least

[Recursion]

3. That reads like "reducing poverty" and "reducing inequality" are the same thing

They can be, but aren't necessarily. I can't find a chart of Venezuela's per capita income, but their per capita GDP doesn't bode well:



They also have 8.7% unemployment.

Edit: more recent chart.

[Judi Lynn]

4. It would help if you had an understanding of where the country was in 1999. n/t