Crime Limits Growth in Latin America, Says World Bank

Crime Limits Growth in Latin America, Says World Bank

Crime Limits Growth in Latin America, Says World Bank A report from the World Bank brings a renewed focus to the impact of organized crime on economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the cyclical relationship between poverty and crime.The World Bank’s most recent Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review (LACER) predicts the region will have the slowest economic growth in the world in the next two years, growin…

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A collapsed morgue is more than an operational failure; it is a society that is not knowing what to do with its dead due to the increase in crime in the country.

A recent World Bank report re-focuss on how organized crime hampers economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and highlights the cyclical relationship between poverty and crime. The most recent edition of the Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Report (LACER, for its [...]

A recent report by the World Bank puts the focus back on how organized crime hinders economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and highlights the cyclical relationship between poverty and crime. The most recent edition of the Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Report (LACER, for its acronym in [...] The World Bank entry states that crime slows growth in Latin America was first published in Information Focus.

With a statement, motivated by the resurgence of yellow fever cases in Latin America, the National Academy of Medicine warned of the importance of maintaining a high level of vaccination against this disease and, based on data from the Pan American Health Organization, emphasized that Venezuela is one of the six least protected countries in Latin America.