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Original title: Poverty, Inc.
Year: 2014
Running time: 94 min.
Country: United States
Director: Michael Matheson Miller
Screenwriter: Michael Matheson Miller, Simon Scionka, Jonathan Witt
Cast: Documentary, Self: Robert Sirico
Cinematography: Simon Scionka
Producer: Co-production United States-United Kingdom-Thailand-Swaziland-South Korea-South Africa-Rwanda-Russia-Peru-Kenya-Italy-Ireland-India-Haiti-Georgia-Ethiopia-Dominican Republic-Cambodia-Bangladesh-Argentina;
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of the development narrative. But the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and developing world leaders have become increasingly vocal in calling for change. Drawing on perspectives gathered from over 150 interviews shot over 4 years in 20 countries, 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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Poverty, Inc.

2014

Michael Matheson Miller