Why Poverty?
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
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8 Episodes available•Instant HD Playback
Four Born Every Second
58mRevealing 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
58mA look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
3
Stealing Africa
58mAn investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
4
Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
58mHow the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
5
Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
58mPoor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
6
Solar Mamas
58mA 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
58mHow rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
8
China's Ant People
58mGetting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.
