Favela Leste is located in Diadema, one of the municipalities in the MRSP hardest hit by the loss of industrial jobs resulting, in part, from the opening of the market for freer trade, one of the hallmarks of globalization.

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Diadema has since gone proactive.

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More recently, realizing the need to work together rather than compete, Diadema and the other municipal governments in the industrial region of the MRSP, home to many favelas, have set up both a Regional Chamber and an Agency for Economic Development made up of municipal and state government officials, unions, businesspeople and civil society.

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