Original title:
The End of Poverty?
[en]
The End of Poverty?
[en]
In a world where there is so much wealth, why is there still so much poverty?
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.
Genre
Documentary
Budget
$1 000 000
Revenue
$57
Duration
1 hour 46 minutes
Release status
Released
Actors
narrator
Martin Sheen
himself
John Christensen
himself
John Perkins
Vice-President, Bolivia
Álvaro García Linera
Author & Nobel Prize Winner
Amartya Sen
Professor & Historian
Edgardo Lander
Author & President of CADTM
Eric Toussaint
Author & Law Professor
H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil
Jaime De Amorim
Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia
Miriam Campos