2015年拉美经济连续第四年下滑，负向增长，各项社会发展指标鲜见好转，表现为：贫困率停止下降，失业率开始反弹，部分国家通货膨胀率大幅攀升，影响到居民收入水平；经济社会问题的叠加，使公共安全形势变差，社会腐败依然突出。伴随财政形势的困难，拉美左翼政府的社会支出政策开始面临挑战，来自民众的反对声音增加，拉美政坛开始“向右转”。2015年是拉美“千年发展目标”的评估年，总体上看，过去25年拉美在减贫、提高就业、普及教育等诸多方面取得显著成效，但有些社会指标的改善仍有差距，各国实现目标的情况也存较大的差异。在《2030发展议程》中，拉美国家提出了新一轮的社会政策目标，尤其强调可持续发展和社会融入的重要性。
In 2015，Latin American countries experienced negative economic growth for the fourth consecutive year，leading to stagnation of social situation，as manifested in increasing poverty，rising unemployment rate，and soaring inflation. All these factors exerted great impacts on income. Social and economic problems overlapped，making public security worse. Corruption remained to be a crucial challenge to regional countries. Due to fiscal difficulties，social expenditure policies implemented by some left-wing governments faced lots of challenges. As a result，rightist parties were gaining a momentum. The year 2015 is the 15th anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals. While regional countries have made great progress in poverty reduction，employment promotion and education，some goals of social development are still not achieved. The performance of regional countries varied greatly. According to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda，regional countries put a series of new development goals，emphasizing sustainable development and social integration.
