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 ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in ...

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.

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.

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s extreme ...

Poverty in Brazil has tripled in 2021, according to the Getulio Vargas foundation nearly 17 million of Brazil’s population were dragged into poverty in the first quarter of the year by the brutal ...

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 ...

With a monthly stipend that she receives from the Brazilian government, Clemilda dos Santos can now keep the refrigerator stocked for her 10 kids, but life for the family is still precarious. At the ...

BRASILIA, BrazilBRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s extreme poverty has plunged due to a monthly federal handout during the coronavirus pandemic, but threatens to bounce back once the government ceases the ...