Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations - the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where poverty and ethics or human rights have been explicitly in focus: in the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO.
The current development aid framework may be seen as seeking to make...
Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice ha...