Religion and the Politics of Development

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ID23214645
AuthorsPhilip Fountain (0000-0002-4015-6478, National University of Singapore), R Mitchell Bush, Robin Bush, R M Feener (0000-0002-1222-6766)
Year2015
Pages11-34
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueReligion and the Politics of Development (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137438577_2
OpenAlexW2338131344
ISBN9781137438577
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited70

We live in a world where extreme disparities challenge notions of basic morality and human rights — in Singapore today, the ultra rich can sip on $26,000 cocktails, while globally 18,000 people die every year of hunger and poverty-related causes; 1,020 million people are chronically undernourished; 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water; and 2,500 million lack access to basic sanitation. In his impassioned moral critique, Politics as Usual, Thomas Pogge (2010) cites these and other statistics to show that the toll of global poverty today far exceeds the total devastation of the Second World War. Indeed, 360 million people have died from hunger and remediable diseases since the end of the Cold War, amounting to a third of all deaths on the planet during that period (p. 11).

CITES · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Extreme poverty · Human rights · Morality · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sanitation · Engineering · International Development and Aid · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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