RT Article
T1 Leave No Poor Behind
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 32
IS 1
SP 71
OP 94
A1 Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822385059
AB Globalization is being celebrated in many circles as a distinctive achievement of our age, drawing peoples and societies more closely together and creating far greater wealth than any previous generations ever knew. While the first of these assertions is correct in the sense that societies and cultures are colliding, hitherto relatively closed horizons are opening up, and spaces and time are compressing, the second deserves critical interrogations. Using Africa's experience with globalization as a case study, this article argues that globalization be understood as an emerging preference for certain institutional and policy practices that are creating and coercively imposing pervasive but avoidable conditions of material deprivations on many societies. The article defends a motivational rationale anchored in the normative vision of socio-economic and development rights as a way to mitigate the deleterious effects of unguarded globalization.
K1 Cosmopolitanism
K1 motivational rationale
K1 Market Economy
K1 Poverty
K1 global inequality
K1 Human Rights
DO 10.1111/j.0384-9694.2004.00155.x