Favelas - Shanty towns - Squatter camps - Bidonvilles

They go by different names in different places, but the vast slums of the developing world share many traits - grinding poverty, rampant disease, and surprising ingenuity. In this four-part series, we explore the forces that have created these burgeoning informal settlements, and we examine strategies for improving the lives of the earth's billion slum dwellers.

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