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Robert Neuwirth on Fighting Poverty

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Watch this video from TED featuring Robert Neuwirth on HowStuffWorks. Neuwirth is the author of "Shadow Cities" and he takes us on a tour of the world's squatter cities where a billion people now make their homes. See how fighting poverty works in this video from TED (www.ted.com).

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