On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, WWP presents the most recent data on poverty reduction published this month in a World Bank report
Based on data from the last national household survey, Brazil´s Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger (MDS) calculates that the rate of extreme poverty in the country now stands at 2.5%
Brazil has seized the opportunity of the Universal Exposition in Milan (June 3-4, 2015) to share the main policies and social technologies that enabled the country to leave FAO’s World Hunger Map in 2014.
Ms. Lais Abramo, Director of the ILO office in Brazil, emphasized that it is essential that the poverty eradication agenda include better decent work conditions that go beyond simple access to employment
The first panel hosts a discussion on poverty concepts and ways to measure poverty; the panel also defines the notion of a shared prosperity society
Professor James Foster, from George Washington University, advocates the use of multidimensional metrics by developing countries in reorienting their socioeconomic policies
Experts from Brazil and abroad will be attending the meeting in Brasilia until Wednesday (19)
Internationally referenced researchers discuss social policies to overcome multidimencional poverty
Over 200 senior policy makers, including 23 ministers and cabinet-level officials, from 70 developing countries, met to learn from each other’s experiences and from World Bank experts, how to develop well-designed and efficient social protection systems
Published in the Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico on March 24, 2014.