Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our
times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of
global justice have in the policies and practice of international
organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on
an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations
- the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where
poverty and ethics or human rights have been explicitly in focus:
in the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO.
The current development aid framework may be seen as seeking to
make globalization work for the poor; and multilateral
organizations such as these are powerful global actors, whether by
virtue of their financial resources, or in their role as global
norm-setting bodies and as sources of hegemonic knowledge about
poverty. Drawing on their backgrounds in political economy, ethics
and sociology of knowledge, as well as their inside knowledge of
some of the case studies, the authors show how, despite the
rhetoric, issues of ethics and human rights have - for very varying
reasons and in differing ways - been effectively prevented from
impinging on actual practice.
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights will be of interest to
researchers and advanced students, as well as practitioners and
activists, in the fields of international relations, development
studies, and international political economy. It will also be of
relevance for political philosophy, human rights, development
ethics and applied ethics more generally.
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