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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: May 19, 2008

Runtime: 106 minutes

Genres: Documentary

Rating: 7.9/10 (9 votes)


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Cast

  • Martin Sheen

    Martin Sheen

    Self - Narrator

  • John Perkins

    John Perkins

    Self

  • Amartya Sen

    Amartya Sen

    Self - Author & Nobel Prize Winner

  • Joao Pedro Stedile

    Joao Pedro Stedile

    Self - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil