World poverty and human rights /

Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko.

World poverty and human rights / by Thomas Pogge. - 2nd ed. - Cambridge : Polity, 2008. - vii, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Previous edition: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265] -327) and index.

Human flourishing and universal justice -- How should human rights be conceived? -- Loopholes in moralities -- Moral universalism and global economic justice -- The bounds of nationalism -- Achieving democracy -- Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a global resources dividend -- Pharmaceutical innovation : must we exclude the poor?

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.

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Human rights.
Poverty.
Human Rights
Poverty
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Poverty.

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