UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) changed how it measures hunger in 2012, the previous method was tied to food prices. The new method does help them look better in the eyes of the public but does not fool the scholars. Pogge shared his thoughts on the issue in an interview with SciDev.Net
Category Archives: Thomas Pogge Interviews
Room for Discussion
On Monday Sept 7th 2015 Thomas Pogge spoke at the Room for Discussion. The discussion was about Poverty, Human Rights and the Global Order:Framing the Post-2015 Agenda
Portion of the work:
Having spent trillions of dollars on combating the severe financial crisis of 2008–09, the affluent North Atlantic states and their citizens have found themselves constrained to generate similarly massive savings and new revenues in order to sustain their substantially enlarged public debts. In this context, the World Bank’s recent update from the global poverty front has been especially welcome. Released on 1 March 2012, this wonderful news has been extensively reported and celebrated by hundreds of news media around the world. Annie Lowrey’s report in the New York Times is representative:
We have failed to protect the poor
A 2011 discussion on inequality in India with Live Mint, well i guess you could call it Politics as Usual. Pogge discusses the Indian Elite not only maintaining the status quo in India but taking it to the world stage and influencing international rules.
We are not really improving the situation of the poor
The European had an interview with Thomas Pogge, they had some questions like “Who counts the poor?”. Thomas has some good answers and some insights into the Millennium Development Goals. Of course they discuss the Health Impact Fund, check out the insightful interview here
Nigeria: State of Economy – Fireworks, As Academia, Public Analysts Clash in UNILAG
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University, in a video message, intimated the audience to the troubling issue of poverty across the globe and the shift, from 2016, from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations (UN). He said academics must not isolate themselves by siding with the political and economic class, but should be empathic to the struggles of the poor and use their knowledge in fighting poverty.
Thomas Pogge – Global Ethics and Global Justice
Dr. Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and a Research Director at Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN).
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