The End of Poverty? 2008

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
narrator 

John Christensen
himself 

John Perkins
himself 

Álvaro García Linera
Vice-President, Bolivia 

Amartya Sen
Author & Nobel Prize Winner 

Edgardo Lander
Professor & Historian