Why Poverty?
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- Episode
- Stealing Africa
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (58 mins)
- Description
- Ruschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. There is so much money in the public coffers that Mayor can’t spend it all, largely thanks to the contribution from one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of commodities giant Glencore. However, Glencore’s copper mines in Zambia don’t generate similar tax windfalls for Zambians. The country has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Christoffer Guldbrandsen investigates the dark heart of the tax system employed by multinationals and asks, how much profit is fair?
- Genre
- International Development; Social Work; Health and Social Care
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The Open University, "Why Poverty?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83359 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)