The End of Poverty? (2008)

7.9/10 106 min Documentary

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.

Cast

Martin Sheen

Self - Narrator

John Perkins

Self

Amartya Sen

Self - Author & Nobel Prize Winner

Edgardo Lander

Self - Professor & Historian

Joao Pedro Stedile

Self - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil

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