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“Average global per capita income is currently around 760 euros per month; in 1700, it was less than 70 euros per month, roughly equal…

— 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

“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

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

— Zygmunt Bauman

But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it…

— Jamie Dimon

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 benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in…

— Jose Angel Gurria

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since…

— Robert H. Frank

Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And…

— Branko Milanovic

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.

— Tim Ryan

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It…

— Pope Francis

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

— Robert Gilpin