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The paradox of wealth and poverty:

mapping the ethical dilemmas of global development
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Westview Press, 2003 - Philosophy - 283 pages
We live in a time of human paradoxes. Scientific knowledge has reached a level of sophistication that permits understanding of the most arcane phenomena and yet religious fundamentalism dominates in many parts of the world. We witness the emergence of a civil, liberal constitutionalism in many regions of the world and yet ethnic violence threatens the lives and dignity of millions. And we live in a time of rapid economic and technological advance and yet several billions of people live in persistent debilitating poverty. In this book, Daniel Little dissects these paradoxes offering the clearest perspective on how best to approach international development.Using both empirical and philosophical approaches, Little provides a schematic acquaintance with the most important facts about global development at the turn of the twentieth century. In doing so, he explores what appear to be the most relevant moral principles and insights that ought to be invoked as we consider these facts and then draws conclusions about what sorts of values and goals ought to guide economic development in the twenty-first century.
  

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Contents

WELFARE WELLBEING AND NEEDS
1
Gender and Development
23
Notes
32
What Is an Economy?
39
Concepts of Growth Inequality and Poverty
51
Data and Outcomes
59
GOALS AND STRATEGIES
67
Progressive Economic Development
74
International Aid
170
A Role for the Ethical Citizen
181
Notes
187
The Value Issues
193
Goals
204
Means of Preserving Environmental Goods
212
8
219
Institutional Issues
231

A Comparison of Development Strategies
82
Notes
88
Economic Justice
94
HUMAN RIGHTS
125
AID TRADE AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
153
Democracy and the Poor
243
Notes
255
Index
273
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Page 20 - Being able to have attachments to things and persons outside ourselves; to love those who love and care for us, to grieve at their absence in general, to love, grieve, to feel longing and gratitude.
Page 250 - ... as a fair system of cooperation over time from one generation to the next.
Page 79 - Food security is defined as access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life...
Page 158 - Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Page 20 - Being able to live to the end of a human life of normal length, not dying prematurely, or before one's life is so reduced as to be not worth living. 2. Bodily Health. Being able to have good health, including reproductive health," to be adequately nourished, to have adequate shelter.
Page 147 - How can the proposed Declaration be applicable to all human beings, and not be a statement of rights conceived only in terms of the values prevalent in the countries of Western Europe and America?
Page 147 - ... moral codes of one culture must to that extent detract from the applicability of any Declaration of Human Rights to mankind as a whole.
Page 33 - Nussbaum specifies the ten general categories (life; bodily health; bodily integrity; senses, imagination, and thought; emotions; practical reason...
Page 71 - Deregulation — abolishment o~ regulations that impede entry or restrict competition, except for those justified on safety, environmental, and consumer protection grounds, and prudential oversight of financial institutions.

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About the author (2003)

Daniel Little is associate professor of philosophy at Colgate University and visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

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