Humanity needs leadership and
solidarity to defeat the coronavirus.
This #GraphForThought illustrates the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the labor market in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin American and Caribbean countries – and in particular small island developing States – should not be excluded from global assistance. The international multilateral response needs to be extended to middle-income countries.
The report estimates that it would cost from $199 billion per month to provide a time-bound, guaranteed basic income to the 2.7 billion people living below or just above the poverty line in 132 developing countries.
The data, released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), shows that 65 out of 75 countries studied significantly reduced their multidimensional poverty levels between 2000 and 2019.
By Mariano Tommasi y Manuel Franck, Center of Studies for Human Development, University of San Andrés.
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Coronavirus: While the disease was slow to spread to Latin America and the Caribbean countries at first, since the end of February the number of confirmed cases has been climbing rapidly. Updated info here.
COVID-19 - Policy Document Series
This series aims at drawing from UNDP's own experience and knowledge globally and from the expertise and capacity of our partner think tanks and academic institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, to promote a collective reflection on the response to the COVID-19 health crisis and its economic and social effects on our societies.
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The United Nations Development Program in Latin America and the Caribbean and GRANDATA join forces to help governments and organizations in the region to combat COVID-19, creating a platform that facilitates the analysis of people's movements outside their homes.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
38%
of the population are considered vulnerable
80%
of the population lives in urban areas
37%
of all legislators and senior officials are female
40%
of the people in the region feel safe
