Poverty in Abundance: Is Corruption an Answer?

• Authors: Benjamin R. Barber
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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)

Keywords

EN

Megacities Corruption Inequality Poverty Abundance Urban equality Global governance

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Social Change Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-43

Dates

published

2013-07-01

online

2013-08-15

Contributors

author

Benjamin R. Barber

• 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

References

• Barber, Benjamin R. 2013. If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations,Rising Cities. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Boo, Katherine. 2012. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in aMumbai Undercity. New York: Random House.
• Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums. New York: Verso.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/scr-2013-0003