"What causes wealth is the creation of institutions and a culture where entrepreneurs are able to rise up and create value, create jobs, and create businesses that meet the needs and wants of others. And that's what markets are. They're networks of human relationships. Where people get together and solve problems closest to them, so that they can create prosperity that allows them to live lives of dignity." - Michael Matheson Miller

"My parents, like a lot of other Chinese, left China during the Communist Revolution and came to Hong Kong to start a new life. And Hong Kong is a place where it has no natural minerals ... we just have a harbor, a deep harbor. So, I saw upfront a country that came into its own place because it could trade with others." - Carolyn Woo, Catholic Relief Services

"Poverty does not end because people are charitable. For all of the charitable institutions that we've seen in the last century, these things do not account for the rise out of poverty of the poorest of the poor in the world. And, what is so 'scandalous,' to many people, is that what accounts for this rise out of poverty is business. It's enterprise. It's the application of human intelligence, of human action, of human will, of ingenuity into the economic sphere."

"What are the foundations of the free-market economy? They are private property, rule of law, free association - that is, the right for people to join together to do something for which they're competent, to take care of themselves and meet the needs of others. That's what business is. And from that, free exchange. The ability to trade, freely, without some government bureaucrat telling you that you can't do it. And the other thing that's extremely important; the fourth thing: is a culture of trust. A culture that respects other people. A culture where work is dignified." - Michael Matheson Miller

"We need a change in mindsets, so that people in developed nations recognize the dignity and creativity of their brothers and sisters in the developing world and thus foster initiatives that will unleash that potential and create opportunity for people to get out of poverty themselves." - Anielka Münkel

"I don't want for the vision for Africans to be, 'Be the next big microentrepreneur in the world.' We have to dream bigger." - Magatte Wade, Senegal, Founder & CEO of Tiossan

"We are social beings; we are meant to interact with each other; we are actually meant to depend on each other and make our way together." - Carolyn Woo, Catholic Relief Services

"We need to train this generation to really understand why ethics matter. If we want to make sure that things will be different in the future each one of us has to change." - Armando Regil Velasco, Mexico

Battling corruption starts at the individual level. Armando Regil Velasco discusses the importance of ethics and personal responsibility in business, politics, charity work, and everyday life.

January 26th, 2016 - NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, filmmakers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

January 26th, 2016 - NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, filmmakers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

January 26th, 2016 - NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, filmmakers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

January 26th, 2016 - NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, filmmakers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

January 26th, 2016 - NYU's Development Research Institute hosted a public screening of the new hit documentary film, Poverty, Inc. The screening was followed by an in-depth question and answer session between DRI Director William Easterly, filmmakers Michael Matheson Miller and Mark Weber, and the audience.

In an interview at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece, POVERTY, INC. director and producer Michael Matheson Miller discusses the vision of the human person at the heart of the film. Follow Michael on Twitter at @mmathesonmiller.