Global poverty, ethics and human rights : the role of multilateral organisations

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Title:

Global poverty, ethics and human rights : the role of multilateral organisations

Author:

McNeill, Desmond.

ISBN:

9780415447041

9780415445948

9780203881309

Personal Author:

McNeill, Desmond.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Rethinking globalizations ; 19

Rethinking globalizations ; 19.

Contents:

Introduction -- International organisations and the challenge of global poverty -- Ethics, human rights and global justice -- UNDP : the human development paradigm -- The World Bank : the internal dynamics of a complex organization -- UNESCO : poverty as a violation of human rights -- The Inter-American Development Bank : social capital, ethics and development -- Conclusion.

Abstract:

"Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This book examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations - the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where poverty and ethics or human rights have been explicitly in focus: in the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO." "Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights will be of interest to researchers and advanced students, as well as practitioners and activists, in the fields of international relations, development studies, and international political economy. It will also be of relevance for political philosophy, human rights, development ethics and applied ethics more generally."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Economic assistance.

Non-governmental organizations.

International agencies.

Social justice.

Added Author:

St. Clair, Asuncion Lera.

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Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations - the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where poverty and ethics or human rights have been explicitly in focus: in the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO.

The current development aid framework may be seen as seeking to make globalization work for the poor; and multilateral organizations such as these are powerful global actors, whether by virtue of their financial resources, or in their role as global norm-setting bodies and as sources of hegemonic knowledge about poverty. Drawing on their backgrounds in political economy, ethics and sociology of knowledge, as well as their inside knowledge of some of the case studies, the authors show how, despite the rhetoric, issues of ethics and human rights have - for very varying reasons and in differing ways - been effectively prevented from impinging on actual practice.

Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights will be of interest to researchers and advanced students, as well as practitioners and activists, in the fields of international relations, development studies, and international political economy. It will also be of relevance for political philosophy, human rights, development ethics and applied ethics more generally.