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“We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?” quote by Thomas Pogge — Download Open image

“We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?”

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I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent…

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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 funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to…

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I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience…

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Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.

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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…

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One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But…

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Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

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We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

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Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore as entitled to sell the country's natural resources and to borrow money in its people's name. These privileges conferred by foreigners keep autocrats in power despite the fact that they were not elected and do not…

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My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting…

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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like…

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When you're abroad, you always miss your country.

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There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

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And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get…

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“Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.”

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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

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