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World poverty and human rights / by Thomas Pogge.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vii, 284 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780745641430
  • 0745641431
  • 074564144X
  • 9780745641447
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC571 P75
Online resources:
Contents:
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?
Summary: 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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Books Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks Reference JC571 P75 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 (1) Available 2024-4740
Books Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks Reference JC571 P75 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 (2) Available 2024-4741

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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