The read
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Philippe DiazDirector
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