ECLAC database: Poverty in Latin America
Base de datos de CEPAL: Pobreza en América Latina

Contributed by Simone Cecchini, dgPoverty Advisor

The Poverty in Latin America database has been developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Social Development Division in the framework of the project "Monitoring the poverty target of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG)", financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI). The main goal of this database is to support the follow-up to MDG 1, "eradicate extreme poverty and hunger", and its target of reducing by half, between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of people who live in extreme poverty. In particular, this database seeks to provide a more adequate characterization of poverty and extreme poverty in the region by disaggregating indicators according to different dimensions: sex, geographical area, age, educational level, family type, ethnicity, and employment.

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La base de datos Pobreza en América Latina ha sido desarrollada por la División de Desarrollo Social de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) de las Naciones Unidas en el marco del proyecto "Seguimiento del componente de pobreza del primer objetivo de desarrollo del Milenio (ODM)" financiado por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI). El objetivo principal de esta base de datos es servir como un instrumento de apoyo para el seguimiento del ODM 1, "erradicar la extrema pobreza y el hambre", y de su relativa meta de reducir a la mitad, entre 1990 y 2015, la pobreza extrema. En particular, se busca adecuar los procedimientos de caracterización de la pobreza extrema y de la pobreza total en los países de la región a través de su desagregación según distintas dimensiones: sexo, áreas urbanas y rurales, edad, nivel educativo, tipo de familia, origen étnico e inserción laboral.

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