Pluralism about Global Poverty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6228256 |
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| Authors | Jennifer C Rubenstein, Jennifer Rubenstein (0000-0002-9653-2292, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 775-797 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123412000385 |
| OpenAlex | W2069438947 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Theorists have identified a wide range of reasons why individual and collective actors have a moral responsibility to help alleviate global poverty. There is now widespread agreement that several of these reasons are valid. From the perspective of the poverty opponent, it might seem that the more reasons there are to alleviate poverty, the better. The difficulty is that different reasons for alleviating poverty point to different poverty-alleviating activities. This situation generates questions about both how actors should set priorities among different poverty-alleviating activities (‘actor-centred’ questions) and who should have primary responsibility for alleviating particular cases of poverty (‘case-centred’ questions). This article explains why actor-centred and case-centred questions are worth asking and sketches a promising way of responding to them
Basic needs · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economics · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Positive economics · Poverty · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Living High and Letting Die
Responsibility and Global Justice
What Is the Point of Equality?
A Theory of Justice
Boundaries and Allegiances
A Theory of Justice
Restorative Justice and Reparations
Mediating Duties
Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy
Bounds of Justice
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Justice without Borders
Do Associative Duties Matter
Distributing Responsibilities
World Poverty and Human Rights
Contributing and Benefiting
Severe Poverty as a Violation of Negative Duties
World Poverty and Human Rights
Living High and Letting Die
Principles of Social Justice
Spheres of Justice
Relief agencies and moral standing in war
Welfare and the Images of Charity
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