Why Poverty? (2012)
Synopsis
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
First Air Date: 2012-11-19
Last Air Date: 2012-12-05
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 8
Networks: BBC Four, PBS
Seasons
Season 1 (2012)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 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.
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Ep. 2: Give Us the Money
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
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Ep. 3: Stealing Africa
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
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Ep. 4: Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
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Ep. 5: Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
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Ep. 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.
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Ep. 7: The Great Land Rush
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
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Ep. 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.
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