Poverty
A New UN Poverty Index Shows Brazil with an Improvement of 20% in Six Years
Brazil’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (“MPI”) has dropped by 22.5% in six years. According to ...
Brazil, a Poor Country Mired in Lies, Hostage to Greedy Political Parties
The results of research recently published by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and ...
Despite Recent Progress Brazil Still a Long Way from Equality
Over the past decade, income inequality and poverty in Latin America have been on ...
The Official Outlook: Brazil to Eradicate Poverty by 2016
If Brazil is able to maintain the same rate of poverty reduction and income ...
It’s Back to Poverty for Half a Million Middle-Class Brazilians
Prosperity seems to be a rare commodity these days in Brazil. Over half a ...
In 6 Years, 3 Million Brazilians Left Poverty Behind
In Brazil, three million people crossed the poverty threshold over the last six years ...
So Rich Brazil, So Many Poor Brazilians!
A few days ago, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book Lula of Brazil: The ...
Brazil Cuts in Half Number of Extremely Poor
Seven years before the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Brazil is showing ...
Brazil’s Bolsa Família Is Good for the Poor But Bad for Poverty
Recently we witnessed President Lula’s great victory, thanks to a program directed to the ...
Zero Hunger Czar Says All Brazilians Will Have Food by the End of 2006
Through its social programs, the Brazilian federal government hopes, by the end of 2006, ...