Movie

Poverty, Inc. (2015)

• July 10, 2015
• 1h 34m

• Documentary

“Fighting Poverty is BIG Business!”

Overview

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

Writers

Simon Scionka, Michael Matheson Miller

Starring

Michael Parenti, Richard D. Wolff, Chris Hedges