Freedom From Poverty

Author : Pogge, Thomas
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040332
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? written by Pogge, Thomas and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.

Author : Matt Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792316685
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Poverty and Freedom written by Matt Warner and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030787429X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Development as Freedom written by Amartya Sen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Author : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509560645
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446310
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Poverty, Work, and Freedom written by David P. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are those who cannot live a life that is discovered and created rather than already known. Avoiding poverty, then, means having the capacity and opportunity for creative living. The authors argue that the capacity to do skilled work plays a particularly important role in creative living, and suggest that the development of the ability to do skilled work is a vital part of solving the problem of poverty.

Author : Thomas Pogge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right written by Thomas Pogge and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Pogge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199226318
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right written by Thomas Pogge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.

Author : Andreassen, Bard A.
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231041444
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: economic perspectives written by Andreassen, Bard A. and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037435
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 0855985933
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.