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World Poverty and Human Rights
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World Poverty and Human Rights Paperback - 2008

by Pogge, Thomas W

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  • Title World Poverty and Human Rights
  • Author Pogge, Thomas W
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
  • Date 2008-02-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 074564144X.G
  • ISBN 9780745641447 / 074564144X
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.06 x 0.9 in (22.91 x 15.39 x 2.29 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.01

From the rear cover

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.

About the author

Thomas Pogge is Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, Research Director in the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.