The Ethics of Global Poverty: An introduction

by Scott Wisor

Overview

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 measured?
• What are the causes of poverty?
• Do wealthy individuals have a moral duty to reduce global poverty?
• Should aid go to those who are most in need, or to those who are easiest to help?
• Is it morally wrong to buy from sweatshops?
• Is it morally good to provide micro-finance?

Featuring case studies throughout, this textbook is essential reading for students studying global ethics or global poverty who want an understanding of the moral issues that arise from vast inequalities of wealth and power in a highly interconnected world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317574699
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/08/2016
Series:	The Ethics of ...
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	830 KB

About the Author

Scott Wisor is Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Part 1: UNDERSTANDING POVERTY

2. What is Poverty?
3. The Causes of Poverty
4. The Study of Poverty

Part 2: DUTIES TO ERADICATE POVERTY

5. Duties of Humanity
6. Duties of Justice
7. Associative Duties
8. Denying Duties to Eradicate Poverty

Part 3: FOREIGN AID AND ITS CRITICS

9. Aid, Critics, and Innovators
10. Aid Allocation

Part 4: INTERNATIONAL REFORM

11. Immigration
12. Humanitarian Intervention
13. International Trade

Part 5: APPLIED QUESTIONS

14. Advocacy
15. Consumption
16. Microfinance

Glossary

Bibliography

Index