Dumisani Nyoni
Why aren’t poor people asked what should be done about poverty?
Dumisani Nyoni looks at how poverty is often represented in the West and challenges some of the assumptions we make about it. The perspectives of the poor are seldom taken into…
Recorded: 22 January 2008
Count Hans von Sponeck
What stops the world making the necessary changes?
Count von Sponeck believes that much more pressure should be placed on industrialized nations to meet internationally agreed targets to raise the standard of living of the world’s…
Recorded: 20 January 2008
Bianca Jagger
What might an equitable society look like?
Having been born and brought up in Nicaragua under the dictator Somoza, Bianca Jagger says she knows what poverty and injustice really means. Here she lays out her vision for a…
Recorded: 13 May 2007
Michael Totten
How are the solutions to major global problems related?
Michael Totten describes how climate change is linked to other problems such as poverty and species loss. He is confident that solutions are available that combat climate change…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Susan George
Why rich countries should worry about poor countries’ debt (part 1)
Susan George explains why it is in the interest of rich nations and multinationals that poor countries should remain handicapped by debt. Debt is, in her view, a form of colonialism.…
Recorded: 8 September 2006
Susan George
How do we tackle the crisis of global debt?
The relief of the burden of debt crippling many poorer nations is an essential step in achieving social justice. Yet despite the high profile Make Poverty History campaign in 2005,…
Recorded: 8 September 2006
Sulak Sivaraksa
How should good people behave?
Sulak Sivaraksa, widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost Buddhist leaders along with the Dalai Lama, believes that it’s not enough to be good while there is…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Tony Colman
How could taxation be better used to fund development?
Colman discusses how taxation can be used as a means to finance efforts to reduce global poverty. He looks at the recent EU agreement to tax airlines to fund overseas development.…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Paul Rice
What is difference between Fair Trade and Free Trade?
Recent studies by the World Bank conclude that the benefits of free trade and economic liberalization have failed to reach the world’s poorest people. Rice notes that many…
Recorded: 27 March 2006
Paul Rice
Does Fair Trade really help people?
Paul Rice illustrates the power of fair trade with a story about a young woman from Nicaragua. Yolanda was born into a family of coffee farmers. Ten years ago her father joined…
Recorded: 27 March 2006
Martin Khor
What does ‘Structural Adjustment’ mean?
Structural adjustment is the term used by the IMF to describe the loan conditions it imposes on indebted countries. These conditions include not only trade liberalization, but also…
Recorded: 15 July 2005
Majid Tehranian
What are the roots of terrorism? (Part One)
Professor Tehranian talks about the history and culture of terrorism and its varied causes and responses. The object of terrorist activity is to paralyze people through fear, a…
Recorded: 26 May 2005
Nelson Mandela
Can we make poverty history?
In this short clip, produced by the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign, Nelson Mandela reminds us that it is up to all of us to continue…
Recorded: 1 May 2005
Jeffrey Sachs
What is ‘The Millennium Villages Project’?
The Millennium Villages Project, run by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up approach to lifting villages in the…
Recorded: 1 March 2005
John Perkins
What does an ‘economic hitman’ do?
John Perkins describes his work as an economic hitman (EHM) and reveals a game that’s “as old as empire” – and one that has taken on terrifying new dimensions…
Recorded: 28 January 2005
Ann Pettifor
What was the ‘Jubilee 2000’ movement?
Ann Pettifor talks about the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign – the largest and most successful campaign in history to cancel third world debt. She explains how the debt…
Recorded: 1 November 2004
Lynne Twist
What is money really for?
Lynne Twist describes how our relationship with money has become corrupted. She notes how consumer society sees money as an end rather than a means and that we have lost the ability…
Recorded: 21 May 2004
Jane Goodall
Case Study: The TACARE Project
Primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall talks about TACARE – a pilot project she set up in Tanzania to…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
