Stealing Africa
How much profit is fair? (58mins)
Long Film
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And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal,
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there was in heaven a silence
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which lasted about the space of half an hour.
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And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets
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prepared themselves to sound.
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- Who are you?
- I am Death.
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. Watch the documentary now or download it from our Vimeo channel.
Glencore's 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.
Find out more about the links between aid and trade and development, and use our interactive dataviz to look at development stats around the world. How does where you live compare?
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Tell us what you think. Exactly how much profit is fair? Will changing the global tax system really make a difference to the world's poor?
Directed by: Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Produced by: Henrik Veileborg
Production company: Guldbrandsen Film & Steps International