Tag: poverty

• Saturday, October 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Brazilian government cuts emergency cash transfers to help the poor withstand the pandemic

  

  Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with millions expected to slip back into poverty. Brazil’s government, starting this month, halved the amount of its monthly emergency cash transfers to help Brazil’s poor withstand the hardship of the economic meltdown, down to 300 reais (US$54).

• Thursday, October 1st 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Some 18 million Argentines, 40,9% of the population live in poverty, with prospects of worse times ahead

  

  Nearly half of Argentina’s population was living in poverty in the second quarter, a sharp increase from last year, as the country’s longstanding economic crisis deepened due to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers estimated on Wednesday.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Six out of ten children in Argentina live in poverty, UN data

  

  The global pandemic has hammered Argentina's economy, which is now expected to shrink around 12% this year, driving millions into poverty and leaving almost six out of every 10 children and adolescents below the poverty line, United Nations data show.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 11:50 UTC

  Inequality and coronavirus pushing much of Chile's middle class back to poverty

  

  Middle classes in Chile are going through a complicated moment, with many slipping into poverty as long-established inequality was increased by the coronavirus pandemic and overall slowdown of the economy.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentina will begin distribution of food cards to low income families later this month

  

  Argentina's government will begin to distribute food cards to low-income families beginning later this month as part of its anti-hunger program. Social Development Minister Daniel Arroyo announced during a live presentation of Argentine Plan Against Hunger the government reached an agreement with the Governor Jorge Capitanich from the northern province of Chaco to fight with hunger.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina: Surveys indicate 40.8% of the population lives below the poverty line

  

  A third of Argentine homes and 40.8% of people were below the poverty line at the end of the third quarter according to the Social Debt Observatory from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, which regularly releases the data.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Privatized services plus health, education and pension's costs, the right blend for Chile's social explosion

  

  It is not poverty that is driving Chile's middle class into the streets to join massive protests: it is debt, brought on by sky-high private health and education costs that have created an economic fragility many find unbearable.

• Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Evangelical churches advancing in Argentina, even in Francis former archdiocese

  

  The pastor's voice bellows through an old converted cinema in a rundown Buenos Aires barrio and hundreds of hands reach out in prayer. Though not a typical place of worship, Evangelical churches like this one are sprouting up all over Pope Francis' former archdiocese, as once staunchly Catholic Argentina battles an economic crisis that has plunged more than one-third of the nation into poverty.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 12:16 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina on the rise, Catholic University research shows

  

  Poverty in Argentina reached “35 per cent” so far this year, according to Argentine Catholic University (UCA), it was reported last week.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Billions suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, says Unicef and WHO report

  

  Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed* drinking water services, 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic** hand-washing facilities.