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Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. We citizens of the rich countries are conditioned to think of this problem as an occasion for assistance. Thanks in part to the rationalizations dispensed by our economists, most of us do not realize how deeply we are implicated, through the new global economic order our states have imposed, in this ongoing catastrophe. My sketch of how we are so implicated follows the argument of my book, World Poverty and Human Rights, but takes the form of a response to the book’s critics.
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Pogge, T. (2005). Real World Justice. In: Brock, G., Moellendorf, D. (eds) Current Debates in Global Justice. Studies in Global Justice, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3847-X_3
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