“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFactsPastUsedTermPovertyMaterialsAbsolutesGrantedRelativeStraightforwardDeprivation Author:David Cameron
“Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.” PovertyRelativeIgnoble Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty” PainSpiritualLife IsSocialPoorPovertyPrivacyHardshipRelativeInvasionOstracismSocial Ostracism Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.” PeopleThinkingWayLevelsPovertyPercentConceptsIncomeRelativeConsumption Author:Milton Friedman
“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.” IfsWantSometimesRealityKidsChoicesGrowsRealizingPovertyGrowing UpStreetsAppreciateAvailableEducationalNeighborhoodRelativeEducational System Author:Keke Palmer
“Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.” PeopleHalfPovertyShareGainsBottomAverageIncomeRisingRelativeQuartersDeclinePersistSevere Author:Thomas Pogge
“It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.” WorldProblemTodayPovertyInjusticePopulationConsistentRelativeWorld PovertyWorld Population Author:Thomas Pogge
“There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move to the suburbs or to a neighborhood that in general seems to have better conditions can really affect a child's outcomes. The kids who moved at young ages are dramatically better as adults. They're earning 30 percent more, they're 27 percent more likely to go to college, relative to the kids who stayed in the high poverty public housing projects. And so there's clear scientific evidence that you can change kids' outcomes just based on where they grow up.” KidsAgeMovingPovertyGrowing UpStudyCollegeEvidenceMovedNeighborhoodRelative Author:Raj Chetty