The metropolitan regions with the highest poverty rates were Manaus and São Luís The number of people below the line of poverty in Brazil's 22 largest cities has reached 19.8 million in 2021, it ...

Stephane Hallegate, a climate change consultant at the World Bank and co-author of the report, notes that Brazil's significant inequalities mean that the poor are more vulnerable to the impacts of ...

as required by the Paris Agreement — and plans to make Brazil the world’s fourth-largest oil producer by 2029. “We’re still ...

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 ...

In 2022, almost eight percent of those who were employed were considered to be below the poverty line. Income inequality in Brazil is high, as indicated by its Gini coefficient, which stands at ...

More heavy rain is forecast for Brazil’s already flooded Rio Grande do Sul state, where many of those remaining are poor people with limited ability to move to less dangerous areas. More than 15 ...

"The return to poverty of those 15 million people is even a conservative estimate," said economist Marcelo Neri, head of social policies at the FGV, a leading higher education institute.

Brazil should be ashamed of its poverty, not glamorizing it. The Olympic Games’ opening ceremony, in addition to its not being disrupted by terrorists, criminal gangs, or a massive attack of ...

Brazil is home to 203 million people with a real GDP per capita of US$9,032 in 2023. It is a large federal country comprised of the union (federal government), 26 states (plus the Federal District), ...

Voters in Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo have reelected mayor Ricardo Nunes following a tumultuous campaign that pitted ...