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UBN-PL method  

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  • The United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) developed and raised the concept of unmet basic needs (UBN) as indicators of poverty for the region in the late 1970s. Most Latin American countries adopted this approach in the 1980s. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; UBN-PL Method]

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