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Why Poverty?

Season 1 · 8 episodes · Nov 19, 2012

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    Episode 1

    Four Born Every Second

    Nov 19, 2012

    Revealing the shocking lottery of child birth across the globe. The life chances of newly born babies in the rich world and the poor world.

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    Episode 2

    Give Us the Money

    Nov 25, 2012

    A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.

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    Episode 3

    Stealing Africa

    Nov 26, 2012

    An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.

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    Episode 4

    Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream

    Nov 27, 2012

    How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.

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    Episode 5

    Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

    Nov 28, 2012

    Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.

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    Episode 6

    Solar Mamas

    Dec 2, 2012

    A Jordanian mother's successful struggle to pull herself and her family out of poverty by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer.

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    Episode 7

    The Great Land Rush

    Dec 4, 2012

    How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.

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    Episode 8

    China's Ant People

    Dec 5, 2012

    Getting an education and a life in contemporary China. A look at Chinese education through the lives of a tutor, a student and a jobseeker.