Politics as Usual : What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric


Thomas W. Pogge
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
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1 online resource (285 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - COVER; Contents; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; 1: What Is Global Justice?; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 The extent of global poverty; 1.2 The moral significance of global poverty; 1.3 From international to global justice; 1.4 Interactional and institutional moral analysis; 1.5 Global institutional analysis; 1.6 The global institutional order contributes to severe poverty; 1.7 Global poverty is foreseeable and avoidable; 1.8 Conclusion; 2: Recognized and Violatedby International Law:The Human Rights of the Global Poor; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Human rights and correlative duties. - 2.2 The purely domestic poverty thesis2.3 The Panglossian view of the present global order; 2.4 Is the present global order merely lessbeneficial than it might be?; 2.5 The present global order massively violates human rights; 2.6 The promise of global institutional reform; 3: The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration?; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Reflection one - on halving world poverty; 3.2 Reflection two - on tracking poverty by counting the poor; 3.3 Reflection three - on where the line is drawn; 3.4 Reflection four - on relating the IPL to the global product. - 3.5 Concluding thoughts4: Developing Morally Plausible Indices of Poverty and Gender Equity: A Research Program; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 How the World Bank is tracking poverty by counting people below some IPL; 4.2 The problematic reliance on CPIs and PPPs; 4.3 Tracking development with the HDI and gender equity with the GDI; 4.4 Toward new indices of development,poverty, and gender equity; 5: Growth and Inequality:Understanding Recent Trendsand Political Choices; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Who benefits from recent growth?; 5.2 Intra-national inequality; 5.3 Growth and poverty in China. - 5.4 Global inequality5.5 What next?; 6: Dworkin, the Abortion Battle,and Global Poverty; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 Dworkin's problematic reconstruction of the pro-life perspective; 6.2 Review of the alleged inconsistencies of the pro-life perspective; 6.3 The search for common ground; 6.4 Global poverty as a competing moral priority from the pro-life perspective; 6.5 Comparing the responsibilities for abortion and global poverty; 6.6 Objections to the comparative moralpriority of poverty; 6.7 Conclusions; 7: Making War on Terrorists:Reflections on Harming the Innocent; 7.0 Introduction. - 7.1 The uses of terrorism for politicians and the media7.2 Public support for anti-terror policies; 7.3 One failure in the moral justification for terrorism; 7.4 Other problems for the moral justification of terrorism; 7.5 Taking morality seriously; 7.6 Acting under color of morality; 7.7 The measures taken in our name; 7.8 How do we justify our policies?; 8: Moralizing Humanitarian Intervention: Why Jurying Fails and How Law Can Work; 8.0 Introduction; 8.1 The amazing appeal to the Rwandan genocide; 8.2 Would an intervention to stop the Rwandan genocide really have been illegal?. - 8.3 Humanitarian heroes fettered by legal niceties?. - Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or political tyranny. Here progress is slow, and there may be set-backs. But the affluent states and many international organizations are working steadily to extend the blessings of modernity through trade and g
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Poverty - Government policy.
Poverty - International cooperation.
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