World Poverty And Human Rights

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

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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 : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745641431
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.

Author : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564144X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pogge tries to explain the attitude of affluent populations to world poverty. One or two per cent of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty and Pogge presents a powerful moral argument.

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

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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 : Suzanne Egan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183910211X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Human Rights written by Suzanne Egan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and insightful book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to evaluate the role of human rights in tackling the global challenges of poverty and economic inequality. Reflecting on the concrete experiences of particular countries in tackling poverty, it appraises the international success of human rights-based approaches.

Author : Margot E. Salomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Responsibility for Human Rights written by Margot E. Salomon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text considers the issues of world poverty and global justice, addressing the ability of people in poor or developing countries to have enough food, or clean water, or access to basic healthcare. It draws on international law aimed at the protection and promotion of human rights.

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243269
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathologies of Power written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.

Author : Desmond McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134063539
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights written by Desmond McNeill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the activities of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, in relation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521527422
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Assistance written by Deen K. Chatterjee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates. At issue are both the political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. The wide-ranging arguments shed light on global distributive justice, human rights and their implementation, the varieties of community and the obligations they generate, and the moral relevance of distance. This provocative volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theory, international law and development economics, as well as policy makers, aid agencies, and general readers interested in the moral dimensions of poverty and affluence.

Author : Lucie White
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804769206
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stones of Hope written by Lucie White and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples.