A surge in poverty and unemployment in Latin America caused by the coronavirus pandemic threatens to set the region back by more than a decade, a United Nations agency has warned.
Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said the region urgently needed to build a new welfare state to reduce “unsustainable” levels of inequality.
“We don’t want to go back to where we were [before the pandemic],” she told a news conference in Santiago on Thursday. “The recovery should be transformational, with equality and sustainability at the centre.”
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