In 2023, Brazil celebrated a landmark achievement, reducing extreme poverty to just 8.3% of its population, or 16.9 million individuals. This achievement marks a decrease of 2.6 million people from last year, as reported by FGV’s Social Policy Center. The IBGE confirmed that social inequality stayed at a historical low, with a Gini index of […]
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