"Assisting" the Global Poor

The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 13:189-215 (2007)
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Abstract

We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? Using one prominent theorist to exemplify this way of conceiving the problem, I show how it is a serious error — and a very costly one for the global poor.

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Thomas W. Pogge
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