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The End of Poverty? (2008)

11/13/2009 (US) Documentary 1h 46m
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In a world where there is so much wealth, why is there still so much poverty?

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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.

  1. Philippe Diaz

    Director

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  1. Martin Sheen

    Martin Sheen

    narrator

  2. John Christensen

    himself

  3. John Perkins

    John Perkins

    himself

  4. Álvaro García Linera

    Vice-President, Bolivia

  5. Amartya Sen

    Amartya Sen

    Author & Nobel Prize Winner

  6. Edgardo Lander

    Professor & Historian

  7. Eric Toussaint

    Author & President of CADTM

  8. H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo

    Author & Law Professor

  9. Jaime De Amorim

    Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil

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The End of Poverty?

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Original Language English

Budget $1,000,000.00

Revenue $57.00

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