Problem
1) Glaeser (2011, p. 90) states: "Urban poverty is not pretty-no poverty is pretty-but the favelas of Rio, the slums of Mumbai, and the ghettos of Chicago have long provided pathways out of destitution for the poor." Based on the evidence reviewed by both Glaeser (2011) and Marx, Stoker, and and Suri, T. (2013), is this statement accurate?
2) Which of the facts about the economic lives of the poor, presented by Banerjee and Duflo (2007), did you find most interesting and surprising?