In a significant socio-economic shift, Brazil witnessed a remarkable decrease in poverty levels between 2023 and 2024, with 8.6 million individuals emerging from poverty. This article delves into the ...

From 2023 to 2024, this contingent fell from 9.3 million to 7.4 million, meaning that 1.9 million people left this condition.

Brazil recorded its best results in income, inequality, and poverty since this time series began in 1995, according to a ...

Latin America finds itself in an interesting predicament. While only the progressive governments are making progress on ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has vanished.

By Brasil 247 - Brazil reached in 2024 the highest levels of household income and the lowest levels of poverty and inequ ...

The number of Brazilians living below the poverty line has dropped to its lowest point since 2012, according to official data Wednesday, though a quarter of the population were still under the ...

This paper examines multidimensional poverty in Brazil in 2000 and 2010, based on the microdata of the Demographic Censuses. Our analysis is disaggregated into five classes of municipalities according ...

BRASILIA, June 2 (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious plan on Thursday to eliminate dire poverty in Brazil within four years by lifting more than 16 million people from ...

Two former presidents - Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Ricardo Lagos Escobar of Chile - told a full Salomon 101 Wednesday that democratic social programs like improved public health and ...