This is the first contribution to our media watchdog series on the Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s favelas, part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing conversation on the media narrative and media portrayal surrounding favelas. Throughout the year RioOnWatch monitors coverage […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese on G1 click here. A study released November 13 by the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (DIESSE) shows that a black worker is paid […]
For the original article in Portuguese on Portal Geledés via Diário do Nordeste click here. The financial assistance given to families living in extreme poverty through the program Bolsa Família (“Family Stipend”) does not deter them […]
Clique aqui para Português Since the founding of the Grameen Bank in 1976, the use of microfinance in development economics has proven a remarkably effective method of providing credit to the impoverished. Often lacking access […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Caio Quero on BBC Brasil click here. The creation of shopping malls in Rio’s favelas may reinforce the distance between these communities and the rest of the city, […]