Poverty Is No Pond: Challenges for the Affluent

Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wenar, Leif ^a  

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Author keywords

Aid; Harm; International ethics; Peter Singer; Philanthropy; Severe poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921793958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739073.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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