Ep. 644 How Not to Help the World's Poor

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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So much of what's been tried in order to help developing countries has backfired that it's long past time to reexamine the whole question. A brand new documentary, called Poverty, Inc., is gaining plaudits across the ideological spectrum. I talk to director, producer, and writer Michael Matheson Miller today.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 64.
0:03.3	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.0	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.2	Hey, everybody, I got another great libertarian podcast for you.
0:17.5	It's a podcast I've been featured on, and I liked it so much, I made it into an
0:22.4	episode of my own show, and that's Lions of Liberty. Check it out at lionsofliberty.com.
0:29.2	Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Michael Matheson Miller joins us once again. We're going to talk
0:34.2	about his documentary Poverty, Inc. It is just tremendous. It's so well done about poverty in the developing world and different strategies that have been tried, strategies that have failed, approaches that have been more successful. It's going to be a great conversation.
0:54.0	Michael Matheson Miller is research fellow
0:56.2	and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute, which you can visit at Acton, that's
1:03.0	a-C-T-O-N.org. Much of his current work at the Acton Institute involves leading poverty
1:08.5	cure, promoting entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the
1:12.4	developing world. Michael, welcome back to the show. Thomas, good to be with you. Thanks for having
1:16.7	me. I can't believe it's been since episode 61. What episode is this now for you? This is 64.
1:24.8	Wow. So it's been quite a while. Plus, I just, there's just something about that name Michael Matheson Miller. I just like saying it, and I've been deprived of that for almost 600 episodes. But you are so glad to be able to do this. It's good to be back.
1:38.8	Let's, of course, I want to talk about Poverty, Inc. I watched it the other day in preparation for this, very, very well done. And then I went to Poverty Inc. I watched it the other day in preparation for this.
1:44.9	Very, very well done. And then I went to PovertyInc.org, right? It's dot org?
1:50.3	Yes, sir.
1:51.0	And I started looking at some of the reactions you've been getting, some of the very, very high-profile places where you've screened it, the prizes it's won. This thing is like if you, I don't want to
2:02.5	say if you drop dead tomorrow, it's pretty morbid, but if you did nothing else, let's say,
2:06.5	this would be a great achievement you could look back on. I mean, tell me something about the
2:12.0	response you've been getting to it. Well, thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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