Name: Why Poverty?
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-11-19

Episodes

1. Four Born Every Second

2012-11-19 | 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. Give Us the Money

2012-11-25 | 58m

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

3. Stealing Africa

2012-11-26 | 58m

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

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

2012-11-27 | 58m

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

5. Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

2012-11-28 | 58m

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

6. Solar Mamas

2012-12-02 | 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.

7. The Great Land Rush

2012-12-04 | 58m

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

8. China's Ant People

2012-12-05 | 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.

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