The End of Poverty? (2008)
- 2008
- ·106 min
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.
- Actors
- Amartya Sen·Eric Toussaint·John Perkins·Martin Sheen
- Directed by
- Philippe Diaz
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- English·French·Portuguese·Spanish
- Country
- USA
- Director
- Philippe Diaz
Phillipe Diaz's "The End of Poverty?" pretends to take up the cause of the world's oppressed.
I had the privilege of watching this documentary at the African Film Festival here in New York City at Columbia University. It resonated with me.
I saw this film at the African Diaspora Film Festival a few weeks ago. I consider myself fairly well read, and abreast on world news, but "The End of Poverty?
