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Freedom from poverty as a human right : who owes what to the very poor? by Thomas Pogge, Unesco.Publication Date: 2007
Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.
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Health and Poverty : global health problems and solutions by Gijs WalravenPublication Date: 2011
The author provides examples of diseases and problems related to health that disproportionally impact the poor and gives their experiences 'a human face' through individual case studies, as well as a historical review of the problem, an explanation as to why it continues to be a problem, and a recommendation as to what can be done about it.
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Reducing Global Poverty by Barry B. HughesPublication Date: 2009
This book focuses on the most fundamental goal of improving the global condition: reducing poverty worldwide. Using the large-scale computer program called International Futures (IFs), this book explores the most extensive set of forecasts of global poverty ever made, providing a wide range of scenarios based on an authoritative array of data. It transcends the "$1 a day" baseline measure of poverty and probes important concepts like income poverty gaps and relative poverty.
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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights by Diana Tietjens Meyers (Editor)Publication Date: 2014
Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other collection of philosophical papers focuses on the diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the fitness of the human rights regime to secure both economic development and free agency.
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Trade Policy and Global Poverty by William R. ClineISBN: 9781435655362
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
1. Sizing up the issues -- 2. Arrangements for preferential access : experience and potential -- 3. Industrial-country protection and the impact of trade liberalization on global poverty -- 4. Modeling the impact of trade liberalization on global poverty -- 5. The impact of trade on poverty through growth effects
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The Other War : global poverty and the Millennium Challenge AccountPublication Date: 2004-05-13
This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the MCA an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening international aid cooperation more generally. The book tackles head on the tension between foreign policy and development goals that chronically afflicts U.S. foreign assistance; the danger of being dismissed as one more instance of the United States going it alone instead of buttressing international cooperation; and the risk of exacerbating confusion among the myriad overlapping U.S. policies, agencies.
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Freedom from poverty as a human right : who owes what to the very poor? by 
Health and Poverty : global health problems and solutions by 
Reducing Global Poverty by 
Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights by 
One Billion Rising : law, land and the alleviation of global poverty by 
The Other War : global poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account