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No Small Hope - Towards the Universal Provision of Basic Goods (Hardcover)
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With headlines focused on human suffering-civil wars, refugee
flows, the spread of disease due to hunger and poor sanitation,
population growth, climate change-it is easy to dive into despair.
What is needed, instead, is a radical rethinking of global policy
to realize the potential for improving the human condition. This
book help provides hope by examining the basic needs for a
fundamental shift in thinking about development and human security
for both practical and ethical reasons. Kenneth A. Reinert calls
for a basic goods approach that focuses on the provision of
nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, health services,
education services, housing, electricity, and human security
services. This approach bridges two perspectives: that of standard
growth, which emphasizes increasing GDP per capita, and that of
capabilities/human development, which puts priority on the
realization of human potential. Reinert argues that only when
growth leads to an increase in the broad-based provision of basic
goods and services will the hoped-for expansion of human
capabilities and development be achieved. In short, basic goods and
services are a critical link between growth and human development.
No Small Hope: Towards the Universal Provision of Basic Goods
places the basic goods approach on the firm foundation of objective
human needs and subsistence rights. It offers a practical agenda
for making real progress towards human development by focusing on
the real determinants of human well-being in an ethical system of
moral minimalism. In a world of climate change, increased risk of
natural disasters and increased refugee flows, the basic goods
approach promises to help alleviate ongoing suffering and address
vast deprivations in basic needs fulfillment.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2018 |
Authors: |
Kenneth A. Reinert
(Professor of Public Policy, School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs)
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Dimensions: |
243 x 163 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-049944-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Development economics
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LSN: |
0-19-049944-3 |
Barcode: |
9780190499440 |
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