Why Poverty? (2012)
Why Poverty?
2012A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.
Seasons & Episode
Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
A Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
Getting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.
A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century.