Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as 'poverty tourism.' While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other...

Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in...

Human flourishing and universal justice -- How should human rights be conceived? -- Loopholes in moralities -- Moral universalism and global economic justice -- The bounds of nationalism -- Achieving democracy -- Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a...