Is Rio Deganero a Failure of Cities?

i suspect your response is that these critics need to learn some basic economics. Most of the available data we have on the alternatives suggest that rio is really functioning pretty well. i'm not saying that every disadvantage area is doing all that it can to be a pathway out of poverty, but plenty of them are. And certainly the vellos of rio have a reasonably good track record of enabling upward mobility. It's still a place that has more future, more possibility than many of the rural parts of brazil.