Poverty, Inc.

Fighting Poverty is BIG Business!

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?

Cast

Michael Parenti

Self

Richard D. Wolff

Self

Chris Hedges

Self

Jordan Belfort

Dennis Kucinich

Greg Palast

Ralph Nader

Vandana Shiva

Frances Moore Lappé

Max Keiser

Gerald Celente