What the World Needs Now

Sixty percent of the nearly 19,000 people in 19 nations surveyed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes agreed: "The world is not going in the right direction." This view was strongly linked to the opinion, held by 55 percent of respondents, that "the United States is not having a positive influence in the world." A majority of poll participants "does not think that rich countries are playing fair in trade negotiations with poor countries"; believes "rich countries have a moral responsibility to help poor countries develop"; and trusts the United Nations to "operate in the best interests" of their society. PIPA is a joint program of the University of Maryland's Center on Policy Attitudes and Center for International and Security Studies.