Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
To improve global health, it's not enough just to have a really good new product and to obtain marketing approval. You still need to… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
