UN: Latin America faces financial crisis

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    UPI NewsTrack, February 7, 2009, 1pp
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    • Abstract:
      The worldwide economic crisis could mean the loss of 2.4 million jobs in Latin America and more regional poverty, analysts and the United Nations warn. Fallout from the global financial meltdown could increase the poverty rate in Latin America by 15 percent in 2009 while regional bodies are predicting potential widespread unemployment in smaller countries such as Panama and the Dominican Republic, the BBC reported Saturday...