“The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-incomegroups predominate.” (thefreedictionary.com, 2016)

There is a small overall poverty reduction in Colombia: According to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights Country Report 2015, 'those living in rural areas suffer most from the negation of rights that characterizes poverty'. According to the National Department of Statistics (DANE), 24.8 per cent of the population lives in poverty: in urban areas, the poverty rate is 18.5 per cent, while in rural areas it is 45.9 per cent. On this point, the State reported that the change between 2012 and 2013 was -2.2 percentage points at the national level, -2.1 percentage points in main towns, and -2.4 percentage points elsewhere.