The End of Poverty?
Movie
Geners : Documentary
Rate : imdb 7.9/10
Status : Released
Language : English en
Country :
Release :2008-05-19
RunTime :106 mins
Story :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.
Cast
Martin SheenSelf - Narrator
John ChristensenSelf
John PerkinsSelf
Álvaro García LineraSelf - Vice-President, Bolivia
Amartya SenSelf - Author & Nobel Prize Winner
Edgardo LanderSelf - Professor & Historian
Eric ToussaintSelf - Author & President of CADTM
H.W.O. Okoth-OgendoSelf - Author & Law Professor
Jaime De AmorimSelf - Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil
Miriam CamposSelf - Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia
Mashengu wa MwachofiSelf - Former Parliamentarian, Kenya
Maria Luisa MendocaSelf - Rede Social President, Brazil
William EasterlySelf - Author & Professor
Michael WattsSelf - Author & Professor
Nora CastanedaSelf - Women's Bank President, Venezuela
Joao Pedro StedileSelf - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil