World Poverty and Human Rights

Ethics and International Affairs 19 (1):1-7 (2002)
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Abstract

Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. This problem is solvable, despite its magnitude.

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