Outsiders: Our obligations to those beyond our borders

The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 11-32

  Singer, Peter ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511817663.003     Document Type: Chapter

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