Results for: “poverty”
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Why Poverty? Education, Education
In China, education is considered the only way out of poverty. But as the nation’s higher education system is increasingly privatized, college is becoming less accessible to Chinese youth. What will this mean for the future of the nation?
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Why Poverty? Land Rush
With the rise of monoculture farming and globalized food production, Africa’s shifting landscape threatens the continent’s ability to feed its citizens. In Mali, an American plan for a vast sugarcane operation threatens the small-scale native rice farmers who have fed their communities for generations.
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Why Poverty? Solar Mamas
The Barefoot College in India teaches middle-aged women from poor communities to become solar engineers. Rafea Anadi risks everything to take the course, which will teach her how to bring solar power home to her Bedouin community in Jordan.
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Why Poverty? Stealing Africa
Featuring interviews with heads of state, corporate insiders, and officials from major global financial institutions, this film investigates reports of widespread criminality by well-known multinational companies operating in Africa.
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For the Marketplace public radio program’s Wealth and Poverty Desk to produce and distribute original reporting and analysis on economic disparity and inequity in the United States
Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media
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Why Poverty? Give Us the Money
Can celebrity be a force for positive change? Viewers go behind the scenes of global campaigns associated with rock stars, including Bono’s Drop the Debt and Bob Geldof’s Make Poverty History, to witness the successes, challenges, and legacies of these efforts.
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Why Poverty? Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream
On New York’s Park Avenue, number 740 in Manhattan is home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the US. Just four miles away, in the South Bronx, that same avenue runs through the country’s poorest congressional district, where upward mobility seems increasingly out of reach.