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 ...

Although Brazil has drastically reduced the share of people living in extreme poverty over the past three decades, the number of individuals in this condition increased in 2015 and 2016 ...

These effects were even stronger in Brazil’s north and northeast regions, which are less developed than the rest of the country, as well as people in extreme poverty, Indigenous people ...

poor people reported that insecurity and unpredictability of life have increased in the past few years. In Russia, a poor man said, "every day I am afraid of the next." A poor woman in a favela (slum) ...

Even without considering possible tipping points, climate shocks could push another 800,000 to 3 million Brazilians into extreme poverty as soon as 2030. Although Brazil had sharply reduced the share ...