In Central America, Higher Growth Can Lower Crime The International Monetary Fund sent this bulletin at 02/24/2020 10:32 AM EST View as a webpage In Central America, Higher Growth can lower Crime By Dmitry Plotnikov Central America remains one of the world’s most violent regions, where about 4.5 percent of the world’s homicides occur. The region has only about 0.5 percent of the world's population. [...]