{UAH} VIDEO: Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?

VIDEO: Stealing Africa - Why Poverty?

Published on Jan 5, 2013

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Rüschlikon is 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 Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, the film describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa.

Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guld­brandsen Film 


Why Poverty?

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower