Why Poverty? Season 1

November. 19,2012      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.

Episode 8 : China's Ant People
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
December. 04,2012
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
Episode 6 : Solar Mamas
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
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
November. 27,2012
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
Episode 3 : Stealing Africa
November. 26,2012
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
Episode 2 : Give Us the Money
November. 25,2012
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
Episode 1 : Four Born Every Second
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.

Seasons

Season 1
Season 1 2012

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