Why Poverty?
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Seasons | 1
Episodes | 8
avg.Runtime | 58 min
First EP | 2012-11-19
Last EP | 2012-12-05
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A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
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Relesed on | 2012-11-19
1
Four Born Every Second
2012-11-19
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 Money
2012-11-25
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3
Stealing Africa
2012-11-26
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4
Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
2012-11-27
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5
Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
2012-11-28
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6
Solar Mamas
2012-12-02
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 Rush
2012-12-04
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8
China's Ant People
2012-12-05
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.
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