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Ep. 21: Slums

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Impact of Slums on Policy Thinking

All of them prefer being in a slum to being back wherever they came from. Slums form a vote bank from politicians who benefit from keeping poor people in slums, says Ravi Agrawal. The old idea in India was get your slums cleared out of the city. Thankfully that thinking is slowly dying.

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