She Rises Up reveals the explosive implications of women’s economic participation. We follow three radically different women from Sri Lanka, Peru and Senegal, who are fighting to build businesses that create job opportunities for women, while also contributing to the reduction of poverty in their communities.
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Through a combination of industrial espionage, technology theft and the establishment of networks of influence abroad, China is waging a clandestine and merciless war to become the world's leading military and economic power.
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In the past 40 years, multinational corporations have shaken up the global economy. They have become immensely wealthy, earning over $3 trillion in profits each year. Yet, they pay hardly any taxes...
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Programmatic advertising systems are responsible for placing the vast majority of digital ads on the web, using sophisticated algorithms to automatically match products with potential customers. Only a handful of big tech and social media companies control this technology, helping sustain their monopoly over this multi-billion-dollar industry.
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A group of men deep in the heart of the British establishment have been carrying out a coup of a different kind - using Brexit to try and turn Britain into a low-tax, low regulation, high finance utopia.
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About half of Wall Street trades are now performed by automated 'bots. As the algorithmic robot traders outpace and outperform the humans, what are the dangers they pose?
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They're bankers, traders, investment funds executives. They impoverished countries, drove millions of workers into unemployment, and triggered the rise in extremism. Ten years after the crisis, they tell their stories.
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Politicians, economists and the media are obsessed with economic growth. But why do we still cling to this concept? Clearly it is impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet. In 'System Error' award-winning director Florian Opitz examines the fundamentals of capitalism.
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As concern grows about 'coronavirus capitalism', we investigate Social Impact Bonds - an investment product designed to raise private capital to pay for social services. Likely to play an even bigger role in the future, what impact will for-profit investment in social programs have on society's most vulnerable people?
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