World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilites and reforms. 2nd ed.
"Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over...
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2007
Polity Press |
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| description | "Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.
However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.
Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it." |
| format | TEXT |
| id | 19128879124919460519_b350ac836e164f50aacd9fd9faa154a6 |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19128879124919460519_b350ac836e164f50aacd9fd9faa154a6 |
| is_hierarchy_title | World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilites and reforms. 2nd ed. |
| language | English |
| physical | 352 p. Paper |
| publishDate | 2007 |
| publisher | Cambridge Polity Press |
| spellingShingle | Pogge, Thomas democracy economic and social rights human rights poverty World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilites and reforms. 2nd ed. |
| title | World poverty and human rights: cosmopolitan responsibilites and reforms. 2nd ed. |
| topic | democracy economic and social rights human rights poverty |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19128879124919460519-World-poverty-and-human-rights.htm |