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Four Born Every Second
Why Poverty? - S1 - E1
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.
Why Poverty?: Season 1 - 8 Episode s
1x1 - Four Born Every Second
November 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.
1x2 - Give Us the Money
November 25, 2012
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
1x3 - Stealing Africa
November 26, 2012
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
1x4 - Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
November 27, 2012
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
1x5 - Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
November 28, 2012
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
1x6 - Solar Mamas
December 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.
1x7 - The Great Land Rush
December 4, 2012
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
1x8 - China's Ant People
December 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.