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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 08:11 UTC

Tag: United Nations State of Food Insecurity

  • Friday, November 7th 2014 - 22:44 UTC

    Despite Rousseff, extreme poverty grows for the first time in a decade

    Between 2001 and 2012 Brazil cut extreme poverty from 14% of the population to 3.5%, according to the United Nations State of Food Insecurity report

    The number of Brazilians living in extreme poverty grew for the first time in a decade, according to government figures. The Institute of Economic Research reported that the number of people in households with incomes below the poverty threshold of 30 dollars rose from 10.1 to 10.5 million people, which means a 3.7% increase.