Thursday, May 20, 2010

Coming Up From The Favelas: Brazil’s Slumdog Entrepreneurs

Coming Up From The Favelas: Brazil’s Slumdog Entrepreneurs:
There’s another tactical problem with pacification that never would have occurred to me: Violence aside, the move basically shoved the richest people – the criminals - out of the favela, creating a need for a new livelihood for merchants and survival-level entrepreneurs (like the boy to your right and his family) in these neighborhoods. This is where technology is coming in.

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