Tag: Brazil Without Misery

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 20:25 UTC

  Eight million Brazilian still live in “extreme poverty” conditions

  

  Eight million Brazilians still live in extreme poverty, with monthly family incomes of 35 US dollars according to official data released on Monday and which represents a 5% drop compared to the previous survey.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 20:54 UTC

  Brazil receives 8bn dollars loan to lift another 16 million people from ‘misery’

  

  Brazil will receive 8 billion dollars in financing from the World Bank to push its campaign to uproot extreme hardship deeper into some of the country's poorest areas, the bank said on Wednesday.

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 01:56 UTC

  Rousseff tries to overcome internal rift and launches plan to eliminate extreme poverty

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious plan to eliminate dire poverty in Brazil within four years by lifting more than 16 million people from conditions of “misery”.