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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The pandemic shantytown sprang up virtually overnight when people began using scavenged wooden boards to build shacks on a plot of empty land in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city.

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

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 ...

She’s Brazil’s social development minister and an architect of the country’s much-praised decade-long program to eradicate extreme poverty, called Bolsa Familia, or Family Allowance. The cash transfer ...

SALGUEIRO, Brazil, Nov 23 (Reuters) - In Salgueiro, a crossroads town in one of the poorest corners of arid northeastern Brazil, Maria Adelaide dos Santos's small shop selling shoes and clothes ...

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 ...

The founder of the NGO One By One Teresa Stengel (L) embraces Vanessa Moraes as she distributes sanitary pads, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Copyright AFP Sebastien ...