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A critical investigation into the dark side of microcredit, for decades hailed as the key to eradicating poverty in developing countries. However, interest rates from 30 to 200% often make it impossible to...
Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories,...
Using the international fashion industry as a case study this resource asks: what is globalisation? Is it an economic or a geographic phenomenon? What are its causes, and who benefits from it? Filmed in...
Tailor-made to fit UK specifications, this resource was filmed in Bangladesh and emphasises contemporary thinking about hazard events. The personal accounts of those living on Bangladesh’s charland (the...
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi...
A study of ‘safe custody’ detention in prisons in Bangladesh. Thousands of people are held, it is claimed, for their own protection, but they often held there for years before their cases are heard....
Investigates research carried out on women in Third World coutries using the implanted contraceptive Norplant. Presents testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the...
The Mississippi is one of the most rigorously controlled and engineered rivers in the world, yet in the summer of 1993 it suffered the worst flooding in its history. Fundamental questions are being asked...
Two programmes looking at how the world’s governments are responding to UNICEF’S call to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They chart the progress of global ratification...
Examines the questions relating to adult literacy programmes in the context of rural development. Although filmed in Bangladesh, it is concerned with the general issues raised, using Bangladesh as a case...
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