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.

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.

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

Some 200 Indigenous families live in deep poverty in the Ava Guarani village of Marangatu, in southern Brazil, losing hope of one day regaining their ancestral lands ...

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 ...

Brazil’s economy is slowly coming back from the economic havoc brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. After the historical crash of 3.3 percent in 2020, real GDP was higher in 2021 than in 2019. In 2022, ...