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 ...

The number of people living in poverty in Brazil grew by two million last year in the wake of the country's worst recession on record, according to the government statistics bureau. The figure, going ...

BRASILIA, July 12 (Reuters) - More than 100 countries are expected to back a global alliance against hunger that Brazil has proposed to counter the increasing number of people going hungry in the ...

The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that tracks social programs for the poorest half of the population — ...

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 hallmark initiative, backed by the World Bank and championed by City Hall, has significantly bolstered social assistance services to meet the heightened demand in the aftermath of the pandemic In ...