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Why Poverty?

  • 2012
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~58m / ep
  • 1 season

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

Latest: Season 1 · 2012

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  1. E1. Four Born Every Second

    Nov 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.

  2. E2. Give Us the Money

    Nov 25, 2012 · 58m

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

  3. E3. Stealing Africa

    Nov 26, 2012 · 58m

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

  4. E4. Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream

    Nov 27, 2012 · 58m

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

  5. E5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

    Nov 28, 2012 · 58m

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

  6. E6. Solar Mamas

    Dec 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.

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