Why Poverty? (2012)
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Seasons & Episode
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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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A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
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An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
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How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
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Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
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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.
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How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
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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.