Here are 2 of the 8 BBC Storyville "Why Poverty?" projects - an initiative that saw a set of 8 ground-breaking international documentaries that screened in 180 countries, that explored why, in the 21st century, 1 billion people still live in poverty. The films have now been released online in full, and I've embedded 2 of them below: The first, titled "Stealing Africa," was directed by Christoffer Guldbrandsen, and tells the story of Rüschlikon, a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of...
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