8 episodes
Why Poverty? - Season 1
First aired Nov 19, 2012Season 1
Browse all 8 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.
Episodes
Episode 1
Four Born Every Second
Nov 19, 201258 min
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.
Episode 2
Give Us the Money
Nov 25, 201258 min
A look at 30 years of Bob Geldof and Bono's campaign against poverty.
Episode 3
Stealing Africa
Nov 26, 201258 min
An investigation into the behaviour of multi-national companies in Africa.
Episode 4
Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream
Nov 27, 201258 min
How the wealthiest Americans spend their money and how the poorest Americans are shut out.
Episode 5
Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty
Nov 28, 201258 min
Poor people through the ages, beginning in Neolithic times and up to the present.
Episode 6
Solar Mamas
Dec 2, 201258 min
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.
Episode 7
The Great Land Rush
Dec 4, 201258 min
How rich, land-hungry nations are leasing Mali's land to create agri-business farms.
Episode 8
China's Ant People
Dec 5, 201258 min
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.