Severe poverty, together with climate change, are the two most important moral problems
facing our present generation. The choices we make in the next few years will decide the life …

We all know that hundreds of millions of people worldwide are chronically malnourished and
barely surviving. According to a recent estimate, the number of people who live below the …

One‐third of all human deaths are due to poverty‐related causes, to malnutrition and to
diseases that can be prevented or cured cheaply. Yet our politicians, academics, and mass …

Poverty is most serious when people are not merely poor relative to other people, but also
poor in a narrow, absolute sense. Today, a majority of the world's population is poor in this …

The moral seriousness of the existence of global poverty is hard to dispute. According to
recent UN figures, 1.2 billion people have to survive on less than $1 per day (UNDP 2000 …

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 …

In today's world, national borders seem irrelevant when it comes to international crime and
terrorism. Likewise, human rights, poverty, inequality, democracy, development, trade …

Poverty eradication has been identified as the largest challenge facing international society
in its quest for a peaceful, prosperous, and just world. I respond to this challenge by …

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding
global poverty. It addresses important questions such as: What is poverty and how is it …

Combining deep moral argument with extensive factual inquiry, Richard Miller constructs a
new account of international justice. Though a critic of demanding principles of kindness …