Colombia's poverty rate falls 1.4% in 2012: Santos (Venezuela up)
Colombia now at 34.2% Venezuela 29.5%
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/28981-colombias-poverty-rate-falls-14-in-2012-santos.html
.President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday announced that poverty fell in Colombia by 1.4% between 2011 and 2012.
President Juan Manuel Santos held a "Poverty Round Table" meeting in Colombia's capital of Bogota today, wherein the most recent poverty statistics from DANE, the national statistics agency, were discussed.
According to DANE, poverty in Colombia fell from 34.1% in 2011 to 32.7% in 2012. Poverty in urban areas dropped from 30.3% to 28.4%. However, poverty in rural areas rose from 46.1% to 46.8%.
Extreme poverty was reduced in urban areas from 7.0% to 6.6%, but increased in rural areas from 22.1% to 22.8%.
Santos was particularly pleased with the drop in inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, which fell from 0.548 to 0.539. In addition, per capita income rose 4.6% nationwide.
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De 2010 a 2011, siete países registraron caídas significativas en las tasas de pobreza: Argentina (de 8,6 a 5,7 %), Brasil (de 24,9 a 20,9 %), Colombia (de 37,3 % a 34,2 %), Ecuador (de 37,1 a 32,4 %), Paraguay (de 54,8 a 49,6 %), Perú (de 31,3 a 27,8 %) y Uruguay (de 8,6 a 6,7 %).
Más moderadas fueron las reducciones en Chile, del 11,5 al 11 %, y en Panamá, del 25,8 al 25,3 %.
Por el contrario hubo leves incrementos en Costa Rica (18,8 % en 2011), República Dominicana (42,2 %) y Venezuela (29,5 %).
