Indigenous Peoples Benefited to a Lesser Extent from Latin American Boom

Indigenous peoples made significant social progress, experienced a reduction in poverty levels in several countries and gained improved access to basic services during the boom of the first decade of the century, but they did not benefit to the same extent as the rest of Latin Americans, according to a new World Bank study.

Indigenous peoples in Latin America still face challenges to gain access to basic services. While they make up 8 percent of the population in the region, they represent approximately 14 percent of the poor and 17 percent of the extremely poor.

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