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.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Latin American poverty levels in 2023 fell to a 33-year low, led by progress in Brazil, the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in ...

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

In Brazil, an ongoing financial crisis, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to a staggering unemployment rate of 13 percent. The converging crises have meant rising poverty and homelessness.

Meeting on installation of the G20 National Commission in Brasilia BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will focus on reducing hunger and poverty, slowing climate change and global governance reform when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRASILIA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Brazil will focus on reducing hunger and poverty, slowing climate change and global governance reform when it heads the G20 group of the world's largest economies starting ...