Absolute poverty and global justice
Subtitle: empirical data-moral theories-initiatives
By: by Elke Mack ... [et al.].
Contributors: Mack, Elke.
Series: Law, ethics and economics
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780754678496; 9780754696735
Subjects: Poverty; Poor; Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world : what we know and what we don't / Stephan Klasen; title: Identifying absolute global poverty in 2005 : the measurement question / Michael Ward; title: How world poverty is measured and tracked / Thomas Pogge; title: Christian ethics and the challenge of absolute poverty / Clemens Sedmak; title: "De iustitia in Mundo" : global justice in the tradition of the social teaching of the Catholic church / Gerhard Kruip; title: Religions and global justice : reflections from an inter-cultural and inter-religious perspective / Johannes Müller and Michael Reder; title: On the concept of global justice / Peter Koller; title: Poverty and responsibility / Stefan Gosepath; title: Absolute poverty and global inequality / Darrel Moellendorf; title: Sufficientarianism both international and intergenerational? / Lukas Meyer; title: The alleged dichotomy between positive and negative rights and duties / Elizabeth Ashford; title: Complicity in harmful action : contributing to world poverty and duties of care / Barbara Bleisch; title: Transnational political elites and their duties of the common good / Eike Bohlken; title: World poverty and moral free-riding : the obligations of those who profit from global injustice / Norbert Anwander; title: Medicines for the world : boosting innovation without obstructing free access / Thomas Pogge; title: Not only "a simple math equation" : business organisations as agents for poverty reduction / Michael Schramm and Judit Wagner; title: The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty : an ordonomic approach to global justice / Ingo Pies and Stefan Hielscher; title: Global justice in the context of worldwide poverty and climate change / Johannes Wallacher.