Impatient with Snapshots of Squalor [Boo]

From Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo, 2011, "Author's Note".

I quickly became impatient with poignant snapshots of Indian squalor: the ribby children with flies in their eyes and other emblems of abjectness that one can't help but see within five minutes of walking into a slum. For me--and, I would argue, for the parents of most impoverished children, in any country--the more important line of inquiry is something that takes longer to discern. What is the infrastructure of opportunity in this society? Whose capabilities are given wing by the market and a government's economic and social policy? Whose capabilities are squandered? By what means might that ribby child grow up to be less poor?