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Why Poverty?

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Episodes

Four Born Every Second

1. Four Born Every Second

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.

Give Us the Money

2. Give Us the Money

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

Stealing Africa

3. Stealing Africa

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

Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream

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

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

Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

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

Solar Mamas

6. Solar Mamas

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.

The Great Land Rush

7. The Great Land Rush

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

China's Ant People

8. China's Ant People

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.

Overview

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

Details

Genres

Documentary

Language

EN

First Air Date

2012-11-19

Seasons

1

Episodes

8

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