Why Poverty?
November 19, 2012
1 Season • 8 Episodes
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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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A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
November 19, 2012 • 58m
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.
November 25, 2012 • 58m
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
November 26, 2012 • 58m
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
November 27, 2012 • 58m
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
November 28, 2012 • 58m
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
December 2, 2012 • 58m
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.
December 4, 2012 • 58m
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
December 5, 2012 • 58m
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.
