Poverty, Inc. : Fighting Poverty is big Business, but who Profits the Most?

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Title from web page.
Originally produced as motion picture in 2014.
Introduction -- Do they know it's Christmas? -- We made a devil's bargain -- Republic of NGO's -- Lighting Haiti : Enersa -- The Marshall Plan -- Modern aid -- The new colonialists -- The social fact -- Charity that hurts -- The rich get hipper -- Power to the parents I -- Power to the parents II -- Excluded -- The missing middle -- Property rights & rule of law -- Plausibility structure -- It's going to be beautiful -- End credits.
Narrated by Robert Sirico.
The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry; the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change. Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in twenty countries, the film unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore.
DVD ; (16:9) widescreen ; NTSC, all regions.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Seems to Miss Its Own Point submitted by MollyWiding on June 17, 2020, 11:17am The documentary definitely sheds some light on important issues of exploitation around the world, but the solutions it suggests are insufficient, kind of condescending, and too based in bootstrap economics for my taste. To go from talking about how many children are placed into orphanages because its the best way for their parents to keep them fed to talking about how locals could easily become self-sufficient entrepreneurs if cheap foreign imports stopped feels disingenuous. There's also definitely a white savior narrative going on.