Tag: poverty
How the Populist Leaders of Brazil and India Made Their Countries World Champions of Covid
India recently pushed Brazil out of the media spotlight with its surge in coronavirus ...
World’s Largest Cash Transfer to Families Is a Brazil’s Model Program
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across ...
It’s Time We Call the Killings of Blacks in Brazil by Its Proper Name: Genocide
Genocide, as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...
Resentment Rhetoric that Took Bolsonaro to Power in Brazil Might Keep Him Popular for Some Time
Brazil’s next president, Jair Bolsonaro, who takes power on January 1, is often called ...
Brazil Cuts 5 Million People from Its Popular Social Program Bolsa Família
Since de-facto Brazilian President Michel Temer took office in August 2016, a total of ...
The Billions Stolen by Brazilian Politicians Are Hurting the Country’s Poorest
Brazil is currently facing its worst recession in decades while corruption allegations consume the ...
G20 Is Not a Total Disaster. Brazil Is an Inspiration for Work Against Poverty
Suffering, starvation, mass displacement: Is the fight against extreme poverty, illness and war hopeless? ...
When Housing Rights for Brazil’s Poor Clash with Drinkable Water for 5 Million
On the fringes of São Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded ...
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 ...
