유엔 "코로나19로 올해 중남미 빈곤층 4천500만명 늘어날 것"<br /><br />The UN forecasts the COVID-19 pandemic could push 45 million more people into poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />It says a sharp economic contraction and soaring unemployment will translate to a seven percentage point increase in poverty levels compared to 2019.<br />This will leave some 230 million people,...more than one third of the region's population, in poverty.<br />The UN also said the region could see a 9-point-1 percent drop in GDP, which would be its worst in a century.<br />South America has seen over three million COVID-19 cases, more than half of them in Brazil,...followed by Mexico, Peru and Chile.<br />
