Poverty, Inc.

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Michael Matheson Miller
• Cast(s): Michael Parenti

• Duration: 1h 34min
• Award(s): Grand Jury Prize 2015 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, The Perfect Neighbor
• Story:
  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?
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