According to the report, the main threat comes from social inequality.
As such, the gap is not getting smaller, notes George Gray Molina, chief economist at UNPD for the region and the main author of the report.
But the agency now warns that more than 25 million of them could now fall back into hardship if the right policies are not introduced.
Many Latin Americans suffer forms of discrimination that remain invisible to statistics and public policy action, notes the study.
Because of these shortcomings, 25 to 30 million Latin Americans risk slipping back into poverty, representing one out of every three who were lifted out of it between 2003 and 2013.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/14/inenglish/1465914630_589580.html
