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In 2010, 3.4% of the children under 5 years old in Colombia suffer from global malnutrition (deficiency of weight for age) and up to 13% suffer from chronic malnutrition (deficiency of height for age). The situation is worse for the indigenous peoples of Colombia, who in the same indicators recorded rates of 7.5% and 29.5% respectively. [7]
As of the 2000 Census, 278,600 Colombians were living in the New York metro area [7] and 213,200 Colombians were living in the Miami metropolitan area. The largest Colombian community lives in the South Florida area ( Doral , Kendall , Weston , and Country Club ) and Jackson Heights in Queens County, New York City.
Payday lenders, which typically charge high interest rates, are more common in lower-income neighborhoods. A cost of poverty, also known as a ghetto tax, [1] a poverty premium, [2] a cost of being poor, or the poor pay more, [3] is the phenomenon of people with lower incomes, particularly those living in low-income areas, incurring higher expenses, paying more not only in terms of money, but ...
Colombia's leftist government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as part of a bid to increase agricultural ...
Colombian president Gustavo Petro casts his vote during Colombia's regional elections in Bogota, on Oct. 29, 2023. ... He is the first leader of a large country and the first of a fossil fuel ...
Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage higher-income residents, [1] has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago who believe the influx of new residents destabilizes their communities, and the ...
Their ability to do so is a vital part of the illicit industry. ... the cultivation of coca plants — the main ingredient in cocaine — reached 504,100 acres in Colombia, the largest area since ...
Bolivia was one of the poorest countries in South America, but between 2006 and 2014, GDP per capita doubled and the extreme poverty rate declined from 38 to 18%. [21] This represents a great improvement in comparison to the situation by 2005, diminishing poverty from 59.6% to 38.6% in a decade. [22]