Bottom Quote by Thomas Pogge

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

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

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely…

— Thomas Pogge

Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the…

— Thomas Pogge

“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25 The poorest…

— Rutger Bregman

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant…

— Rowan Williams

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

— Rick Santelli

Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household…

— Thomas Pogge

Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the…

— Thomas Pogge

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country are nothing…

— Rutger Bregman