Over the last two decades, academics (based largely in the west) and activists have invested
a great deal of energy in global poverty. This article asks: why should people not be poor …

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 reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the
World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty-what should it be …

The first Millennium Development Goal sought to 'eradicate extreme poverty and hunger',
and its first target was to halve extreme poverty in 25 years. Progress notwithstanding–the …

Poverty reduction has become a top priority for international development; new norms, facts
and findings on global poverty are gradually becoming part of the established economic …

Poverty consolidates the material divide between us and them, an ideational divide. In the
fast age of digital communication and connectivity, the end of poverty has become the truly …

Beyond Morality: Global Poverty As a Threat to National Security Page 1 Regis University
ePublications at Regis University Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive …

The modern literature on responding to global poverty is over fifty years old and has
attracted the attention of some of the most prominent analytical political theorists of the age …

Judith Lichtenberg ost people no doubt agree that living in dire poverty is a very bad thing,
and so they are disturbed to learn that 1.3 billion people in the world do. What moral claims …

This question is an excellent conversation starter because practically everybody answers it
incorrectly. Primed by depressing and shocking headlines, most people assume that poverty …