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Examines some of Kenya’s economic and ecological problems: cash crops which deprive local people of food, short-sighted agricultural policies which leave the earth impoverished and development schemes...
Shot in a small village in Asiatic Turkey, the film shows how 30 years of economic change have transformed the life of the people. Incomes of farmers have risen and many now have cars and television sets....
Tells the story of an imaginary country where most of the available money is spent on an inappropriate hospital.
Assesses the causes and effects of destroying tropical rainforests. Rural families of the Third World need firewood for fuel and timber is a valuable currency earner. Describes the efforts being made...
Examines a world system rooted in the unequal distribution of wealth and power and shows how the issues affect people in the UK. 1: Shows work being done in Britain to increase awareness of how the wider...
Programmes 6-10 of a series examining world system rooted in the unequal distribution of wealth and power and shows how the issues affect people in the UK. 1: Briaking out of the cycle of food shortages and...
The series examines some of Indias’s more successful development schemes which are transforming the lives of communities throughout the sub-continent. The programmes focus on the individual lives of men,...
Examines the role of the media in developing countries taking as its example Guinea Bissau which was until recently a Portuguese colony. Explains the country’s political and economic background and how...
The growth of bureaucracy in large organisations dominates modern economies throughout the world. The only way to get jobs is through educational credentials so gaining credentials comes to be the primary...
Examines the lives of the inhabitants of Coelhos, a slum built over swampland in the city of Recife, Brazil, and describes an urban development project intended to relieve their plight. Illustrates the...
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