MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2013, MercoPress. http://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[World Bank loan to improve quality of life in Rio do Janeiro’s favelas]]> Sérgio Cabral, Governor of Rio de Janeiro is sponsoring the program Morar Seguro (Safe Homes) Some two million people who live in informal low income settlements (favelas) in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, Brazil, will be benefiting from a 485 million US dollars development policy loan for the Metropolitan and Housing Project approved by the World Bank.

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