CARTAGENA : A Message for Latins
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) winds up its 25th ministerial conference Wednesday in the Spanish colonial city of Cartagena, Colombia.
In a paper presented at the three-day meeting, ECLAC said economic restructuring in the region during the 1980s often concentrated income and increased poverty, “which at the beginning of the current decade affected about 46% of the population.”
If the fruits of growth are not more equitably distributed, it said, popular support for the economic system will be weakened.
Another U.N. report said economic stabilization eventually could lead to a free-trade zone in the hemisphere.
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