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: Joseph Stiglitz, William Easterly, Susan George, Serge Latouche, Nora Castaneda, Nimrod Arackha, Miriam Campos, Miloon Kothari, Michael Watts, Michael J. Watts, Mashengu wa Mwachofi, Martin Sheen
Genres: Documentary