Why Poverty?

Supporting Content

• Go to The Open University’s Why Poverty? website

  • Go to The Open University’s Why Poverty? pages on OpenLearn and be inspired

  

• BBC Four's Why Poverty? Debate

  • BBC Media Centre - Four Born Every Second
  • BBC Media Centre - Give Us The Money

  

• Teacher Wang's recruitment tips — China's Ant People

  Duration: 1:20

• The home to billionaires, 740 Park Ave — Park Avenue - Money, Power and the American Dream

  Duration: 1:33

• China's excellent famine planning — Poor Us - An Animated History of Poverty

  Duration: 1:26

• The first solar engineering lesson — Solar Mamas

  Duration: 2:06
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• About the BBC Blog

  Global broadcasters in partnership ask 'Why Poverty?' - Nick Fraser explains the origins of Why Poverty? and how the BBC is involved.
  
  Read Storyville editor Nick Fraser's blog post
  

  

• BBC Radio 4: Poor Reporting

  Nick Fraser asks what it takes to get people in the rich world engaged in the issue of global poverty.
  
  Listen online
  

  

• BBC World Service: The World Debate

  Zeinab Badawi chairs a Why Poverty? debate in Johannesburg, exploring the causes of and cures for the enduring problem of severe poverty.
  
  BBC World Service: Listen online
  
  BBC News: Watch the World Debate debate online
  

  

• BBC Radio 3: The Essay

  A five-part series on Radio 3 focusing on the subject of poverty. In the third part, writer Bernard Hare reflects on his life growing up poor and witnessing poverty in the UK.
  
  Listen to the series online
  
  Viewpoint: Poverty is a state of mind by Bernard Hare
  

  

• BBC One: Inside Out

  Inside Out East Midlands visits one of the most deprived estates in Leicestershire. Once rife with drug dealing and crime, the community has now pulled together to help those in need.

   

  Coping with poverty - watch a clip