Combating Long‐Term Global Poverty: A Thought Piece

Reginald M Williams

Poverty & Public Policy, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: This paper presents a new account of how to reduce global poverty, and of the moral basis for doing so. I argue that if humans have a right not to be severely poor, as Pogge has helped to establish in philosophical literature, the world's severely poor should be relocated to nearby societies with existing infrastructure which can be expanded, and affluent nations should finance this as much as they can. To defend this position, I present an analogy, according to which the world's severely poor should be seen as economic refugees and thus assisted in relocating to societies that will respect their right not to be severely poor.

Date: 2011
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