Thanks to economic recovery and growth in 2010，most Latin American and the Caribbean countries improved the quality of social indicators. Poverty and absolute poverty continued to fall and even reached the level before the 2008 global financial crisis. Most regional countries succeeded in improving income distribution and promoting labor markets to create more employment. However，the reduction of nominal wages and increase of inflation caused the fall of real wages in most regional countries. In the past decade，Latin America confronted challenges from rampant corruption. Worsening public security was listed as one of major concerns of regional residents. Natural disaster and extreme climate imposed heavy losses to the region. Haiti and Chile suffered from violent earthquakes.