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UN agency to stop calculating Chile poverty stats : SANTIAGO, Chile — A prestigious U.N. agency will no longer help Chile calculate its poverty numbers after the government was accused of misrepresenting the data. Alicia Barcena directs the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ...

UN agency to stop calculating Chile poverty stats : ... correct mistakes in the data. Chilean President Sebastian Pinera celebrated numbers in July suggesting a drop from 15.1 percent to 14.4 percent of Chileans living in poverty , but months passed before he released an error margin that cast doubt on ...