Poverty, Inc.
“Fighting Poverty is BIG Business!”
2015•1h 34m•7.2•Released
Documentary
Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural subsidies, Poverty, Inc. follows the butterfly effect of our most well-intentioned efforts and pulls back the curtain on the poverty industrial complex - the multi-billion dollar market of NGOs, multilateral agencies, and for-profit aid contractors. Are we catalyzing development or are we propagating a system in which the poor stay poor while the rich get hipper?
Director
Michael Matheson Miller
Writer
Michael Matheson Miller, Simon Scionka
Languages
English, French
Cast
Michael Parenti
Self
Production
Producer
Michael Matheson Miller
Producer
James F. Fitzgerald, Jr.
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