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.

The World Bank’s 2025 update shows that poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped to a historic low of 25.2 ...

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 ...

A 20-year trajectory of families followed by Folha highlights the importance of the economic environment in overcoming ...

With global climate talks scheduled shortly at CoP-30 in Belém, Brazil, a new UN report delivers a stark warning: the world’s ...

Bill Gates is calling for shifting climate change focus from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing ...

The Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, the flagship initiative by Brazil, which held the presidency in the G20 in 2024, was set up to raise money and create public policy and technologies to ...

BRASILIA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Brazil will focus on reducing hunger and poverty, slowing climate change and global governance reform when it heads the G20 group of the world's largest economies starting ...

Poverty and hunger are intertwined and are impacted by many challenges that have far-reaching consequences if left unaddressed. For example, depriving a child of proper nutrition reduces learning ...

A significant reduction in childhood poverty could cut criminal convictions by almost a quarter, according to a study conducted in Brazil. An article on the study is published in Scientific Reports.

Authorities said the raid was aimed at enforcing nearly 100 judicial warrants against alleged members of the Comando Vermelho ...