Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

Our region’s accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

Latin America still shows very high levels of poverty and the most unequal distribution of income in the world.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Our region’s accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,