Weekly Report - 29 September 2016 (WR-16-38)

CHILE | Poverty reduction. Chile’s poverty rate, as measured by household income level, fell from 14.4% to 11.7% between 2013 and 2015, while the incidence of extreme poverty fell from 4.5% to 3.5%, according to the latest instalment of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (Casen) released on 22 September.

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