World Poverty and Human Rights

約有25億人生活在嚴重貧困之中，缺乏足夠的營養、安全的飲用水、基本的衛生設施、適當的住所、文盲和基本保健等必需品。所有人類死亡中有三分之一來自與貧窮有關的原因：每年1800萬，其中包括超過1000萬5歲以下的兒童。然而，從人的角度來看，世界貧困問題在經濟上微乎其微。約有25億人生活在嚴重貧困之中，缺乏足夠的營養、安全的飲用水、基本的衛生設施、適當的住所、文盲和基本保健等必需品。所有人類死亡中有三分之一來自與貧窮有關的原因：每年1800萬，其中包括超過1000萬5歲以下的兒童。然而，從人的角度來看，世界貧只要有高收入國家國民收入的1％足以結束全球的嚴重貧困。然而，這些國家不願承擔如此巨大的機會成本，繼續強加一種可預見的不合理全球機構秩序，並可避免地使這場災難永久化。大多數富裕國家的公民都認為我們沒有做錯任何事情。

托馬斯波格試圖解釋這種信念是如何持續的。他分析了我們的道德和經濟理論以及我們的全球經濟秩序如何適應，使我們看起來脫離了海外的大規模貧困。為了消除錯覺，他還提供了一個適度，廣泛共享的全球經濟正義標準，並提出了實現該標準的詳細，現實的建議。徹底更新後，這本經典著作的第二版包含了對批評家的回應，以及介紹Pogge目前關於製藥專利改革的新章節。

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically.

Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.

Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

  Thomas W. Pogge  (Autor)

Publisher: Polity 

ISBN:    978-0745641447 

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