North korea Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce…

— Walter E. Williams

“Whereas in 1800 at least 90 per cent of Egyptians were poor peasants, by 1900 more than 25 per cent of the population of…

— Tarek Osman

The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income…

— Thomas Pogge

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the time it's…

— Rutger Bregman

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“At that time, a grand Arabic project emanating from Cairo had credibility. That is not true today. The relative standing of Egyptians (the country,…

— Tarek Osman

“The most recent data available from the U.S. Census’s SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two…

— Jonathan Morduch

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as…

— Eric Alterman

There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom…

— Jeb Bush

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they…

— Dalia Mogahed