World poverty and human rights : cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms [WorldCat Entities]

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"Thomas Pogge|#x00B4;s book explains why so many of the wealthy believe that they have no responsibility for the elimination of poverty even though a degree of income transfer seems morally required. The theories of the wealthy are seemingly disconnected from poverty in other countries. Pogge dispatches with this illusion and suggests a realistic standard of global economic justice."
"La disuguaglianza continua ad aumentare di decennio in decennio. La parte opulenta della popolazione mondiale diventa sempre più ricca e i poveri rimangono a un livello al di sotto del minimo di sussistenza. Come può persistere una povertà estrema per la metà dell'umanità, nonostante l'enorme progresso economico e tecnologico, le norme morali e i valori illuminati della nostra civiltà occidentale? Perché noi - cittadini degli stati ricchi dell'Occidente -non troviamo perlomeno moralmente preoccupante il fatto che un mondo da noi così fortemente dominato gravi su così tante persone con tali inadeguate e inferiori posizioni di partenza? La grave povertà sussiste proprio perché non riteniamo moralmente obbligatoria la sua estirpazione. Le tesi centrali di questo libro affermano che ogni ordine istituzionale è ingiusto quando la sua applicazione produce prevedibilmente un enorme deficit di diritti umani. Molti credono che i danni legati alla grande povertà cui assistiamo siano estranei al nostro ordine istituzionale globale, o che non possano essere notevolmente ridotti attraverso riforme realizzabili. Thomas Pogge confuta questa convinzione analizzando in dettaglio tre riforme minori, tra loro indipendenti, dell'ordine istituzionale globale, che ridurrebbero drasticamente l'attuale miseria legata alla povertà."
"Main description: Thomas Pogge's book explains why so many of the wealthy believe that they have no responsibility for the elimination of poverty even though a degree of income transfer seems morally required. The theories of the wealthy are seemingly disconnected from poverty in other countries. Pogge dispatches with this illusion and suggests a realistic standard of global economic justice."
"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."
"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. -- Back cover."
"The poorest 46 percent of humankind have 1.2 percent of global income. Their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including 12 million children under five. At the other end, the 15 percent of humankind in the 'high-income economies' have 80 percent of global income. Shifting 1 or 2 percent of our share toward poverty eradication seems morally compelling. Yet the prosperous 1990s have in fact brought a large shift toward greater global inequality, as most of the affluent believe that they have no such responsibility. Thomas Pogge's book 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 proposals towards fulfilling it."