Economic challenges in Rio ( + solutions)
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- Created on: 17-04-22 18:42
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- economic challenges in Rio ( + solutions)
- unemployment
- A recession in 2015 increased unemployment in Rio; wide contrasts in wealth; unemployment rates in favelas are over 20%; most people work in the informal economy where jobs are poorly paid and irregular
- The Schools of Tomorrow programme aims to improve education in the poor and violent areas; free child care is provided to enable teenage parents to return to education
- A recession in 2015 increased unemployment in Rio; wide contrasts in wealth; unemployment rates in favelas are over 20%; most people work in the informal economy where jobs are poorly paid and irregular
- crime
- Murder, kidnapping and armed assault occur regularly; powerful gangs control drug trafficking in many of the favelas
- In 2013, Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) were established to reclaim favelas from drug dealers; police have taken control of some crime-dominated favelas
- Murder, kidnapping and armed assault occur regularly; powerful gangs control drug trafficking in many of the favelas
- unemployment
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