according to eclac estimates between and poverty and extreme poverty both fell considerably in the region the poverty rate from to and the extreme poverty rate from to with the steepest fall occurring in the first half of that period however in and again in both rates rose representing a setback that was especially severe in the case of extreme poverty in turn the extreme poverty rate will likely remain at the same level as in which would push up the numbers living in this situation by around million a range of procedures and assumptions are adopted for these measurements which gives them the specificity necessary for use in the national context but limits their comparability between countries