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 make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
