"Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Thomas Pogge

#Exercise Quotes #Play Quotes #Car Quotes

“To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.”
“Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.”

Source : Maxwell Bodenheim (2016). “Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems”, p.46, Read Books Ltd
“Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.”
“You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a ***** script.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.”
“If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work”
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
“Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.”

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