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Between 2023 and 2024, the percentage of the Brazilian population living below the poverty line, defined as earning less than $6.85 per day (approximately R$694 per month), fell from 27.3% to 23.1%.

More than 8.6 million Brazilians left the poverty line in 2024. This socioeconomic performance brought the share of the population living in poverty down from 27.3 percent in 2023 to 23.1 percent. It ...

Caroline S. Gomide, a professor at the University of Brasilia. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "The Belt and Road Initiative is a critical initiative for different countries to develop ...

The study, authored by Pedro Herculano Souza and Marcos Dantas Hecksher, shows that over the last 30 years Brazil's per-capita household income increased by around 70%, inequality measured by the Gini ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact on their communities, a recent report predicts. However, ...

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 ...