Overdrawn! is a feature-length documentary about predatory banking fees, with Ralph Nader, Joel Bakan ("The Corporation"), a loan shark, and lots of consumers who are fed up with their banks...
The New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the...
The New Silver, filmed in Bolivia, illustrates how access to capital can change the lives of poor individuals and nations. Maria Cabana, whose husband is ill from working in the...
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank's one-on-one relationship...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 26, 2010) Israel released a statement insisting it will not change its policy of building homes for Jews in East Jerusalem. The sixteen Euro...
In this episode of Oceans 8, the kayaking team explores parts of the Gabon accessible only by water, circumnavigating Gabon's jewel of a national park, Loango, for an eye-opening adventure.
Nicola Armacost is Managing Director and Co-founder of Arc Finance, Ltd., which was formed to link the fields of microfinance and energy. For over a decade she served as...
Pro Mujer is an international microfinance and women's development network whose mission is to provide Latin America's poorest women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and futures for...
Pro Mujer in Peru began in 1999 building upon the knowledge and lessons learned in Bolivia and Nicaragua. The institution achieved self-sustainability by the end of 2002. Pro Mujer in...
Pro Mujer in Argentina began operations in November, 2005 in the city of Salta, a northern province near the Bolivian border. It received technical assistance and support from Pro Mujer...
Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman (D-MA) and Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, calls securitization the third major period of American economic history, and blames underregulation of securitized lending as...
Journalist Mark Maley asks why Wall Street’s banks risked billions of dollars on risky, high-interest home sub prime loans. He discovers a deliberate policy of minimizing risk and maximizing greed...
This episode of International Dateline reports on the real underbelly of New York's mob wars, particularly the infamous Gambino crime family. Also, George Negus examines how the U.S. economy has...
(August 23, 2007) The collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States has led to stock market drops across the world. See the effect those investments have...
Reverend Dr. William Sloane Coffin, religious leader and peace activist, speaks on U.S. policies and politics, focusing on the Iraq War and nuclear proliferation.
