While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
Born poor himself, Lula won over Brazil's poor masses by driving down inflation and expanding welfare.
ECONOMIST: Lula is forced into an unexpected second round of voting
For Mr Cardoso, and now for Brazil's poor, Mr Magalhaes is an ally to be feared.
He has also revealed, rather late in a long political career, a concern for Brazil's poor.
Her intellectually ambitious father turned to peddling in Brazil's poor north-east.
Ms Sarney, the governor of Maranhao, in Brazil's poor north-east, has surged in popularity through a propaganda campaign that highlights her charm and glamour more than her policies.
So being poor in America is much better than being poor in Brazil, at least when it comes to shelter and care.
Being poor in Brazil, until only recently, was seen as quite normal.
The private sector, meanwhile, often pays little more than a pittance, exacerbating the massive inequalities between rich and poor in Brazil's society and effectively subsidising the public sector.
Sao Paulo's inhabitants suffer from a high degree of urban paranoia stemming from the knowledge of the huge gap between rich and poor in Brazil, and the underclass that this creates.
It is a major reason for the poor quality of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies.
At Stanford since February, he's also working to distribute computers, cameras and satellite dishes to poor communities in Brazil.
Bregga means tacky, and in Brazil refers to music in poor taste.
Wages for the poor and low income in Brazil have risen by more than 40% over the last few years.
And by knocking down the pensions laws, the Supreme Court has made it even harder for Mr Cardoso to succeed in his quixotic quest to get Brazil's state to help the poor and not just pamper the privileged.
ECONOMIST: Defeats and victories in Brazil’s war on poverty | The
But Brazil is so fundamentally unequal that, for the poor, even modest advances are milestones.
The capital today is Brazil's most socially segregated city, its poor huddled in favelas on the outskirts.
Francis, who before he became pope was known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, said a fellow cardinal from Brazil had told him "don't forget the poor" as the votes stacked up in his favor.
CNN: Pope Francis explains name, calls for church 'for the poor'
In Brazil, for example, the income gap between rich and poor is vast.
It is true that the Bank's lending has become more focused on social sectors recently, and it is also true that the majority of the world's poor people live in countries such as China or Brazil, which do have access to capital markets.
In Brazil those living in rural areas are twice as likely to be poor as others, and around 45% in these areas have not completed lower secondary school.
President LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (Brazil): (Through translator) My mother, who was poor, would make me and my brother lift up the sofa so she could clean the dirt that no one saw - just like my government - we expose the dirt that had been pushed under the rug and we never stopped an investigation.
Many developing countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and India have various Conditional Cash Transfer programs that pay poor families if they keep their kids in the school.
When Fiat wanted to launch a new car for emerging markets, it assembled a team of engineers from Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Turkey, all of whom had experience designing cars for poor roads.
Reebok's poor performance has been largely in the Americas, including North America, Brazil and Latin America.
But Senator Heloisa Helena, Brazil's first female presidential candidate, challenges Lula's record on the poor.
Oil money is already helping to drive up Brazil's currency, the real, hurting manufacturers struggling with high taxes and poor infrastructure.
The election of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil is generally seen as a continuation of the policies that took the country from poor and bankrupt to one of the most promising economies in the world.
FORBES: Brazil Unveils Rules To Curb Capital Inflows, Showing That Dilma Rousseff Is Not Lula
Women gather beans and other crops planted along the banks, leach the cyanide compounds out of manioc, a root that grows well in the poor soil, and then roast it to make a crunchy flour eaten throughout Brazil.
This leaves Brazil with a shortage of 8m houses and huge pent-up demand, especially from the poor, who tend to build their own dwellings one room at a time.
ECONOMIST: Lower inflation has done wonders for finance and industry
应用推荐