May 19, 2008
106 min
Full-HD

The End of Poverty? (2008)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

Companies

Martin Sheen

narrator

John Christensen

himself

John Perkins

himself

Álvaro García Linera

Vice-President, Bolivia

Amartya Sen

Author & Nobel Prize Winner

Edgardo Lander

Professor & Historian

Eric Toussaint

Author & President of CADTM

H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo

Author & Law Professor

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