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Why Poverty? Season 1

November. 19,2012
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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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Why Poverty? Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 8 - China's Ant People
First Aired: December. 05,2012

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.

Episode 7 - The Great Land Rush
First Aired: December. 04,2012

How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.

Episode 6 - Solar Mamas
First Aired: December. 02,2012

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.

Episode 5 - Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
First Aired: November. 28,2012

Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.

Episode 4 - Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
First Aired: November. 27,2012

How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.

Episode 3 - Stealing Africa
First Aired: November. 26,2012

An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.

Episode 2 - Give Us the Money
First Aired: November. 25,2012

A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.

Episode 1 - Four Born Every Second
First Aired: November. 19,2012

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.

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