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Abstract: Carmen Lucia Mareiro Maia, 58 years old, is a nurse who has lived at the Tabajaras community all her life. Tabajaras is a small slum located near the Copacabana neighborhood, the heart of south Rio. It is said that slums here are like little cities inside the city, with […]

Migration isn’t the problem: How India could boost the capacity of cities and infrastructure through good governance and planning to cope with urban sprawl and decay.

Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education – and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world’s poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn.