The End of Poverty?
Documentary
Release Date
May 19, 2008
Duration
106 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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.
Casts
Self - Narrator
Martin Sheen
Self
John Christensen
Self
John Perkins
Self - Vice-President, Bolivia
Álvaro García Linera
Self - Author & Nobel Prize Winner
Amartya Sen
Self - Professor & Historian
Edgardo Lander
Self - Author & President of CADTM
Eric Toussaint
Self - Author & Law Professor
H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
Self - Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil
Jaime De Amorim
Self - Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia
Miriam Campos
Self - Former Parliamentarian, Kenya
Mashengu wa Mwachofi
Self - Rede Social President, Brazil
Maria Luisa Mendoca
Self - Author & Professor
William Easterly
Self - Author & Professor
Michael Watts
Self - Women's Bank President, Venezuela
Nora Castaneda
Self - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil
João Pedro Stedile
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