world have an equal claim to use the world's natural resources. Pogge suggests a Global
Resource Dividend (GRD) which is tobe used for raising the minimum living standard of the
world's poorest people. Pogge's proposal has been criticized on three different levels. First, it
has been objected that from a normative point of view the moral justification of the GRD is
not convincing. Second, he has been criticized for the empirical assumptions that underlie …