Poverty, Inc. | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adoptions to agricultural | dG1fRGtfOUhPbW1MRms

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00:00Machiavelli said the reason there will be no change is because the people who

00:18stand to lose from change have all the power and the people who stand to gain

00:24from change have none of the power that's describing the global aid system

00:29today I'm glad people want to help it comes from a good heart people give us

00:37food they dig us wells they bring us shoes they encourage others to give the

00:44problem is it does not work the foreign aid amounted to a huge subsidy hundreds

00:51of millions of dollars Tom shoes found the right model that capture this love of

00:57people who want to be generous and helpful our donations have an

01:02unpredictable impact on the local economy why would you go buy something it's for

01:07free emergency disaster relief has become the permanent model after 40 years if

01:12you're still here there's a problem what happened to our cotton farms that's all

01:16gone because of a negative impact all the inputs at a second-hand level we rich

01:21countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries it has

01:25not worked it actually created more poverty we don't need one more

01:30celebrity doing one more campaign what we need is to no longer be excluded no one

01:37wants to be a burger for life I know about countries that developed on trade and

01:43innovation and business I don't know of any country that got so much age and it

01:47suddenly became a first-world country if you really want to help the poverty

01:50industry as we know it has to go the sooner we tell a beautiful story about

01:56the African entrepreneur doing amazing work then we will begin to shift mindsets

02:02they're not desolate they have hope they have a way to get out of it there's a way

02:07to fix it

02:10when you do something you can see the impact on the population and you can say

02:14this is because of me having a heart for the poor isn't hard but having a

02:18mind for the poor that's the challenge