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“There can be no doubt that Latin America has made impressive progress on reducing poverty over the past decade,” Clark said Thursday at the inauguration of the 7th Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, addressing representatives from 32 countries.
She said that Latin America reduced the number of people living on fewer than $4 a day from 42 percent to 25 percent in the given period, while the number of people in the middle class increased from 21 to 34 percent.
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