The End of Poverty?
Rating: 7.9 · 2008 · Documentary · USA · 1 ч 46 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 1 ч 46 мин
- TMDB
- 7.9
- IMDb
- 7.9
- Tagline
- In a world where there is so much wealth, why is there still so much poverty?
Director
Cast
- Martin Sheen — Self - Narrator
- John Christensen — Self
- John Perkins — Self
- 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
- Mashengu wa Mwachofi — Self - Former Parliamentarian, Kenya
- Maria Luisa Mendoca — Self - Rede Social President, Brazil
- William Easterly — Self - Author & Professor
- Michael Watts — Self - Author & Professor
- Nora Castaneda — Self - Women's Bank President, Venezuela
- Joao Pedro Stedile — Self - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil