Robert Neuwirth is the author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, and a New Urban World and has written for publications including the New York Times and the Nation.
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Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel. Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and... SEE MORE