The Global Poor as Agents of Justice

“Agent-centered” approaches to global poverty insist that effective arguments for poverty reduction must specify the concrete duties of particular duty-bearers. This article takes up a recent, influential, version of this view, Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based argument for global economic reforms t...

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Main Author: Deveaux, Monique (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2015, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-150
Further subjects:B political agency
B Poverty
B Global Justice
B Thomas Pogge
B Empowerment
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