Why Poverty?
2012 · 58m · Documentary
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Episodes
1. Four Born Every Second58m · Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.
2. Give Us the Money58m · A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3. Stealing Africa58m · An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4. Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream58m · How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty58m · Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6. Solar Mamas58m · A Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.
7. The Great Land Rush58m · How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8. China's Ant People58m · Getting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.More Like This
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