Poverty, Inc.

Poverty, Inc. (2015)

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?

Erscheinungsdatum
2015-07-10
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (16)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 34 Min.
Genres
Dokumentarfilm
Regie
Michael Matheson Miller

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Poverty, Inc. is a 91-minute documentary inquiry into the nature of human flourishing and the effects of the multibillion dollar poverty industrial complex erected to promote it. The film challenges current perceptions of global charity and promotes entrepreneurship as an effective alternative to alleviating world poverty. The film was made by the Acton Institute, a free market think tank.

Production and synopsis

The filming started in 2010. Directed by Michael Matheson Miller and drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. explores the neocolonial power dynamics embedded paternalism underpinning the predominant modes of assistance, which often situate “the poor” (i.e. “the other”) as the objects of charity rather than as the active protagonists in their own stories.

The film has the tag-line, “Fighting poverty is big business, but who profits the most?” One of the things the film looks at is charitable institutions and their role in fighting poverty. It questions whether aid institutions themselves are sometimes a hindrance to fighting poverty. The film features Herman Chinery-Hesse, Hernando de Soto and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammad Yunus. Also mentioned in the film are Bill Clinton and Bono.

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