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World Poverty and Human Rights
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Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement.Abstract:
Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. The annual death toll from poverty-related causes is around 18 million, or one-third of all human deaths, which adds up to approximately 270 million deaths since the end of the Cold War.read more
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National Responsibility and Global Justice
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Soft versus Critical Global Citizenship Education
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Three models of education Rights, capabilities and human capital
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Responsibility and Global Labor Justice
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World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present four easy reasons to ignore world poverty and defend our acquiescence in world poverty, and do our new global economic order really not harm the poor?
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How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
Shaohua Chen,Martin Ravallion +1 more
TL;DR: This article presented a new assessment of progress in reducing poverty over 1981-2001 using more consistent data and methods, closely following the methods underlying the Attacking Poverty (World Bank 2000) numbers, which had been based on Chen and Ravallion (2000).
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Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a globally impartial liberal theory is not in the best interests of distributive justice, and identify a different way in which liberalism might deal with the worries created by the fact of state borders.