The End of Poverty? (2008)

Director
Philippe Diaz

Martin SheenHimself - Narrator
Amartya SenHimself - Author & Nobel Prize Winner
Eric ToussaintHimself - Author & President of CADTM
Edgardo LanderHimself - Professor & Historian
H.W.O. Okoth-OgendoHimself - Author & Law Professor
Miriam CamposHerself - Ministry of Indigenous People, Bolivia
Mashengu wa MwachofiHimself - Former Parliamentarian, Kenya
Maria Luisa MendocaHerself - Rede Social President, Brazil
Jaime De AmorimHimself - Coordintor, Landless People Movement Brazil
William EasterlyHimself - Author & Professor
Alvaro García LinerasHimself - Vice-President, Bolivia
Nora CastanedaHerself - Women's Bank President, Venezuela
João Pedro StedileHimself - Landless Movement Leader, Brazil
Kipruto Arap KirwaHimself - Agriculture Minister, Kenya
Clifford CobbHimself - Author & Historian
Eduardo YssaHimself - Cochabamba Community Leader
David EllermanHimself - Author & Former World Bank Economic Advisor
Raul Monjon RamirezHimself - Planning Ministry Director
Joseph StiglitzHimself - Former World Bank Vice-President & Nobel Prize Winner
Jim ShultzHimself - President, The Democracy Center, Cochabamba
Abel MamaniHimself - Water Minister, Bolivia
Oscar OliveraHimself - Former Worker & Water Defense Coordinator
Marcela OliveraHerself - April Foundation & Water Defense Coordinator
Eric MgendiHimself - Communications Coordinator, Action Aid
Chalmers JohnsonHimself - Author & Former CIA Analyst
Nimrod ArackhaHimself - TMWDO Organization
Miloon KothariHimself - United Nations Rapporteur
Jerome GuilletHimself - Investment Banker Energy Sector
Joshua FarleyHimself - Professor of Ecological Economics
Carla Ortiz
Philippe Diaz
Ramiro Pare
Thomas Staunton
François Vila
Beth Portello
Kindra Ruocco
Robert Schalkenbach

Phillipe Diaz's "The End of Poverty?" pretends to take up the cause of the world's oppressed.

I had the privilege of watching this documentary at the African Film Festival here in New York City at Columbia University. It resonated with me.

I saw this film at the African Diaspora Film Festival a few weeks ago. I consider myself fairly well read, and abreast on world news, but "The End of Poverty?