"Fighting Poverty is BIG Business!"10 July 2015Factual94 mins
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. | Official Trailer
I see multiple colonial governors” says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa.
Poverty Inc a film by Gary Null
Courtesy of Gary Null Published on 15 Jun 2017 Examining the influence of corporate globalization and exposing the destructive nature of our modern financial ...
POVERTY INC. | TRAILER | SIMA 2015
Director: Michael Matheson Miller 2014 | 90 min USA (Shot In 20 Countries) The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development giving rise to a ...
Poverty Inc. Trailer
Executive Producer - Gary Null Directed by Gary Null & Valerie Van Cleve Produced by Valerie Van Cleve & Richard Gale Edited by Valerie Van Cleve & Nick ...
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