teleSUR — Nearly 2 Million Ecuadoreans Lifted out of Poverty in 6 Years

Ecuador's multidimensional poverty rate was reduced to 35 percent in December 2015 from 51.5 percent in December of 2009. Ecuador's National Institute of Statistics and Censuses reported Friday that the country's multidimensional poverty rate dropped 16.5 percent between 2009 and 2015, translating into 1.9 million Ecuadoreans who no longer live in poverty. “Socioeconomic poverty will be fundamentally solved through changes in the relations of power … through political processes,” said Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. The reduction of both urban and rural poverty has been one of the major objectives of the Correa government since his arrival to the presidency in 2007. The country is working to eliminate extreme poverty completely, having already successfully done so in the capital region.

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Nearly 2 Million Ecuadoreans Lifted out of Poverty in 6 Years