Reporter Steve Bradshaw travels to Mali, Uganda, Peru and Cambodia. In each country he collects fabric to make a symbolic dress representing the plight of the more than one billion people who live on a dollar a day or less. The program concentrates on looking at the impact of the world's trade system on poor countries. In Mali, Bradshaw tries to buy the distinctive cotton which the 'Blue Men of the Sahara' are famous for but is shocked to discover the material most of the men wear is now made in China. This is despite the fact that Mali produces cheap, good quality cotton. They are unable however, to compete with the subsidized cotton farmers of America and the European Union. Despite the rhetoric of free trade the West gives $50 billion a year in aid worldwide but also gives almost $300 billion a year in subsidies to farmers, making it extremely difficult to poor countries to exploit their trade advantage.