The End of Poverty? (2008)
Documentary
Overview
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
- Martin Sheen as Self - Narrator
- John Christensen as Self
- John Perkins as Self
- Álvaro García Linera as Self - Vice-President, Bolivia
- Amartya Sen as Self - Author & Nobel Prize Winner
- Edgardo Lander as Self - Professor & Historian
- Eric Toussaint as Self - Author & President of CADTM
- H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo as Self - Author & Law Professor
- Jaime De Amorim as Self - Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil
- Miriam Campos as Self - Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia