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- Title: Poverty and Global Justice.
- Author : Ethics & International Affairs
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 270 KB
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Poverty eradication has been repeatedly singled out as the largest challenge facing international society in its quest for a peaceful, prosperous, and just world. (1) This should come as no surprise, given the vast number of persons afflicted by poverty and its dire implications. (2) The aim of this article is to respond to this challenge by proposing a global poverty eradication principle. Drawing on John Rawls's accounts of human rights and assistance for the law of peoples, I argue that poverty eradication on a global scale must be established as a central priority of public policy at all levels, domestic and international. Which duty applies in a given case is based on the nature of the relationship between persons affected by poverty and their governments, with implications for the selection of appropriate means, but always with the same conclusion vis-a-vis the goal of global poverty eradication, regardless of causal patterns that may obtain. In arguing for a global poverty eradication principle, I begin by taking the duties of human rights and assistance for granted in order to demonstrate their less noticed implications. A full account of global poverty eradication cannot leave it at that, however, and must show why the duties of human rights and assistance apply, even to societies that may reject them. To that end, I consider reasons for including these two duties in the law of peoples. This is important, since Rawls himself invokes the duties, but does not give grounds for them. After having clarified what I take to be the foundations of human rights and assistance, I point out some of the challenges that are likely to arise in the application of the global poverty eradication principle. While I cannot hope to settle these practical problems philosophically, flagging them helps to clarify the scope of application of the global poverty eradication principle and gives a sense of the concrete targets and measures that could be adopted in working toward its fulfillment in practice, especially for the elimination of certain types of severe deprivation at a minimum.