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Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor?
Author | : Pogge, Thomas |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2007-06-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9231040332 |
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.
World Poverty and Human Rights
Author | : Thomas W. Pogge |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2023-02-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509560645 |
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.
Development as Freedom
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 030787429X |
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Author | : Khiara M. Bridges |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1503602303 |
The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations to have "weak versions" of the privacy rights everyone else enjoys. Khiara M. Bridges investigates poor mothers' experiences with the state—both when they receive public assistance and when they do not. Presenting a holistic view of just how the state intervenes in all facets of poor mothers' privacy, Bridges shows how the Constitution has not been interpreted to bestow these women with family, informational, and reproductive privacy rights. Bridges seeks to turn popular thinking on its head: Poor mothers' lack of privacy is not a function of their reliance on government assistance—rather it is a function of their not bearing any privacy rights in the first place. Until we disrupt the cultural narratives that equate poverty with immorality, poor mothers will continue to be denied this right.
Empowerment and Poverty Reduction
Author | : Deepa Narayan-Parker |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780821351666 |
This publication offers a framework for the empowerment of people living in poverty throughout the world that concentrates on increasing people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. Based on analysis of practical experiences, the book identifies four key elements to support empowerment: information, inclusion and participation, improved accountability and local organisational capacity. This framework is then applied to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness: provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, pro-poor market development, and access to justice and legal aid. It also offers twenty 'tools and practices' which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to support the empowerment of the poor.
A Poverty of Rights
Author | : Brodwyn M. Fischer |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804752907 |
A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.
Poverty and Famines
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1983-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191037435 |
The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: economic perspectives
Author | : Andreassen, Bard A. |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2010-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9231041444 |
The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor
Author | : Earl Shorris |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2013-02-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0393081273 |
Documents the author's observations of circumstances reflected in a maximum-security prison and subsequent launch of a humanities college course for dropouts, immigrants and former inmates who eventually became high-achieving contributors to society.