Contributing and Benefiting: Two Grounds for Duties to the Victims of Injustice

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-45

  Anwander, Norbert ^a  

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EID: 34248031279     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00488.x     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. World Health Organization, World Health Report 2004 (Geneva: WHO, 2004), Annex Table 2; available at www.who.int/whr/2004.
2. For detailed income poverty figures, see Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?” World Bank Research Observer 19, no. 2 (2004), p. 153; also available at wbro.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/2/141 (reporting 2001 data).
3. Ravallion and Chen have managed the World Bank's income poverty assessments for well over a decade. My estimate of the poors' share of the global product is justified in Thomas W. Pogge,“The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration?” Journal of Human Development 5, no. 3 (2004), p. 387.
4. For a methodological critique of the World Bank's poverty statistics, see “The First UN Millennium Development Goal,” pp. 381–85, based on my joint work with Sanjay G. Reddy, “How Not to Count the Poor”; available at www.socialanalysis.org.
5. World Bank, World Development Report 2003 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 235 (giving data for 2001).
6. Thomas W. Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002). All in-text citation references are to this book.
7. For a fuller reading of Locke's argument, see Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights, ch. 5.
8. See Thomas W. Pogge, “Human Rights and Global Health,” Metaphilosophy 36, nos. 1–2 (2005), pp. 182–209.