

In a world where there is so much wealth, why is there still so much poverty?
May 19, 2008
1h 46m
EN
Philippe Diaz
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth. Featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.

Martin Sheen
Self - Narrator

John Christensen
Self

John Perkins
Self


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Álvaro García Linera
Self - Vice-President, Bolivia

Amartya Sen
Self - Author & Nobel Prize Winner

Edgardo Lander
Self - Professor & Historian

Eric Toussaint
Self - Author & President of CADTM

H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
Self - Author & Law Professor

Jaime De Amorim
Self - Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil

Miriam Campos
Self - Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia