Publication: Results in the Latin America and Caribbean Region 2019, Volume 13
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2019-04
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2019-04
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The World Bank’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean has one overriding priority: better lives for its people. All of us working at the Bank dream of a region where people can work and prosper. Where the next generation will live better than the current one; where kids get quality education and mothers quality health care; where individual circumstances at birth such as gender or being born in a rural area do not determine the chances of success in life; and where governments meet the demands of their population for transparency. We all dream of a region where poverty has been eliminated and the development process leads to shared prosperity.
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“World Bank. 2019. Results in the Latin America and Caribbean Region 2019, Volume 13. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36933 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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