IPS News: Where Has Poverty Gone?

Op-Ed on putting poverty and inequality back on the public agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean by Michelle Muschett, Director, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director.

'Political polarization, the climate emergency, organized crime, migration, and low economic growth currently dominate the public debate in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and rightly so. However, there is a significant structural challenge to human development and democracy itself that, along with inequalities, lies at the root of these crises: poverty...'

Read full piece here.