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 …

From a philosophical point of view, the UNESCO project “Poverty and Human Rights” may
be seen as an attempt to explain the idea of morally unacceptable poverty in a way that …

Various international declarations and treaties offer formulations of human rights that are, for
the most part, clear enough to support reasonably precise estimates of the extent to which …

Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which
together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with …

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 World Poverty and Human Rights, Thomas Pogge presents a range of attractive policy
proposals—limiting the international resource and borrowing privileges, decentralizing …

In this essay I defend the validity of a human rights approach to the problem of global
poverty, emphasizing one characteristic of the prevailing indifference toward extreme …

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 …

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 …

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 …