Every time I arrive in Rio de Janeiro, I'm struck by the city's unique beauty: green oval mountains ascend from deep blue seas, bordered by bright yellow sand. Turning around to look beyond the hotel façades that adorn the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema reveals a different Rio: hills packed tightly with cramped wooden houses, many with no running water or sewerage. The contrast of luxury apartments and hotels with these so-called favela neighbourhoods reflects a harsh reality: Brazil is Latin America's most unequal country, where a very high national GINI coefficient (which measures the distribution of income across a population) of 0.

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