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Poverty in Abundance: Is Corruption an Answer?

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  • Barber Benjamin R.

    (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5401, New York, NY 10016-4309, United States of America)

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With the challenges of inequality so embedded in the political and economic infrastructure and their origin at least in part associated with national and global forces outside and beyond the control of the city, remediation is extraordinarily difficult. Only with innovation and imagination is inequality likely to be touched. Only if we are willing to look at the informal as well as the formal economy, and ignore the common wisdom about corruption and squatting and hidden capital, are we likely to find some partial answers to the burdens under which the most progressive and prosperous cities labour. (Excerpt)

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  • Barber Benjamin R., 2013. "Poverty in Abundance: Is Corruption an Answer?," Social Change Review, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 37-43, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:socchr:v:11:y:2013:i:1:p:37-43:n:3
    DOI: 10.2478/scr-2013-0003
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