The End of Poverty?
7/10 from 1 votes
Gender: Documentar
Director: Philippe Diaz
Date of release: 19 May 2008
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.Extra
| Budget | 1000000 $ |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 106 minute |
| Language | English |
| Themes | capitalism economics poor poverty inequality land grab free market |
| Actors | Martin Sheen John Perkins John Christensen |
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