Latin America and the Caribbean social and economic development remains heavily burdened by crime and violence, a new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study shows.

The direct costs of crime and violence in Latin America reached 3.44% of the region’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022, mostly unchanged from a previous IDB study published in 2017.

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