“It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.” CountrySeemsOrderPovertyEconomicBlameObviousPersistenceSevereThugCrooksEconomic Order Author:Thomas Pogge
“Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.” NeedsChildrenLittlesParentCommunityPovertySupportEconomicBabyDemandDifficultyMeetingsNeighborInsecuritySevereStressedDisturbedRespondingBasic Needs Author:Sheila Kamerman
“But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.” ChildrenDoeScienceDiesPovertyGenerationsColdBirthPlantClimateSoilSevere Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindHardRunningProcessPovertyAchieveHard WorkPeriodsIncrediblesStartingHumbleFortunateSevereHumble YourselfRunning A Business Author:Patrick Grant
“As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.” ChildrenIndividualParentPovertyEffectsTaughtKeysImportanceSevereImprovingIlliteracyImportance Of Education Author:Naveen Jain
“The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.” HappensFacesHumanityTermHalfPovertyMembersDiseaseBottomIncomeVulnerableUpsetThrownSevereDeprivedFamily Members Author:Thomas Pogge
“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
“To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.” ShouldWould BeTodayPastGivenLevelsMoralPovertyFocusDevelopmentAverageCurrentsIncomeOur TimeComparisonTechnologicalSevereAdministrativeTimes PastAppraisalPoverty Today Author:Thomas Pogge
“Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.” PovertyBecomingGet BetterSevereScandalous Author:Thomas Pogge
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge