He called for efforts to build a more human world for all, a world in which all will be able to give and receive, without one group making progress at the expense of the other. 94 In this way he was applying on a global scale the insights and aspirations contained in Rerum Novarum, written when, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the idea was first proposed somewhat ahead of its time that the civil order, for its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of redistribution.
39. Pablo VI pedía en la Populorum progressio que se llegase a un modelo de economía de mercado capaz de incluir, al menos tendencialmente, a todos los pueblos, y no solamente a los particularmente dotados. Pedía un compromiso para promover un mundo más humano para todos, un mundo «en donde todos tengan que dar y recibir, sin que el progreso de los unos sea un obstáculo para el desarrollo de los otros»[94].