World Bank's Latin America Chief Sees Chance To Overcome 'Crisis Of Historical Proportions'-Devex

While the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown much of the Western Hemisphere into the worst crisis it has experienced in over a century, the World Bank’s vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean said it also offers an unprecedented opportunity to set the region on a more sustainable, prosperous, and equal path. According to Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, early World Bank estimates show that the pandemic has driven at least 30 million people into poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, a figure that could go higher as more data from 2020 comes in. This wipes out 10-12 years of progress, he said. Devex, 02/20/2021

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