Poverty
Brazil Cuts in Half Number of Extremely Poor
Seven years before the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Brazil is showing ...
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 ...
Zero Hunger Czar Says All Brazilians Will Have Food by the End of 2006
Through its social programs, the Brazilian federal government hopes, by the end of 2006, ...
Majority of Brazilians Oppose Lula’s Anti-Hunger Programs
For the first time, negative evaluations by the Brazilian population with regard to the ...
Brazil Gets World’s Only International Poverty Center
Brazil is the site of the world’s only International Poverty Center. The idea is ...
In Brazil 10% (18 Million) Are Indigent. Argentina and Mexico Have It Worse.
A quarter of the Latinamerican population subsists on less than US$ 2 per day, ...
Brazil and LatAm Fall Short on Millennium Development Goals
Fifteen out of the 24 Latin American and Caribbean nations, including Brazil, have met ...
Emir of Qatar Says Yes to Brazil’s Lula Plan with a US$ 10 Million Check
The emir of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, is going to make a ...
A Simple and Practical Proposal to End Brazil’s Child Labor
Virgílio was 12 years old. His childhood was divided between attending school sporadically and ...
222 Million: the Official Number of Latin America’s Extremely Poor
In spite of recent advances Latinamerica still has 222 million people living in extreme ...
