Quote by Thomas Piketty

“The best available estimates suggest that global per capita income increased by a factor of more than 10 between 1700 and 2012 (from 70…

— Thomas Piketty

“To sum up, global inequality ranges from regions in which the per capita income is on the order of 150–250 euros per month (sub-Saharan…

— Thomas Piketty

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 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

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

— Bono

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

— Michael Essien

“In an innovative proposal linked to basic income that has attracted interest across the European Union, Philippe van Parijs has suggested that every EU…

— Guy Standing

Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better…

— Eduardo Galeano

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there…

— David Miliband

“In 2011, the total world wealth1 was calculated to be $231 trillion, up from $195 trillion in 2010.2 Since we are almost 7 billion,…

— Luciano Floridi

As a matter of fact, the African Union itself estimated that every year corruption alone costs Africa $148 billion. If African leaders could cut…

— George W. Bush

“The average Egyptian has an income level of around 12 percent of the average citizen of the United States and can expect to live…

— Daron Acemoğlu