Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — 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
Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and… — 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
We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — 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
You may know that in India now the Tata car is becoming all the rage; you can buy it for one lakh… — 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
