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Should rich nations help the poor? / David Hulme.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global futures seriesPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2016Description: vii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745686052
  • 9780745686059
  • 0745686060
  • 9780745686066
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Should rich nations help the poor?; No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.91091724 23
LOC classification:
  • HC60 .H866155 2016
Contents:
Why worry about the distant poor? -- The limits of foreign aid -- What can be done? -- Climate change and inequality -- From broken promises to global partnership.
Summary: In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs. But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world's neediest communities is both the right thing to do and the wise thing to do if rich nations want to take care of their own citizens' future welfare. The real question is how best to provide this help. The way forward, Hulme argues, is not conventional foreign aid but trade, finance and environmental policy reform. But this must happen alongside a change in international social norms so that we all recognise the collective benefits of a poverty-free world.
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Why worry about the distant poor? -- The limits of foreign aid -- What can be done? -- Climate change and inequality -- From broken promises to global partnership.

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs. But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world's neediest communities is both the right thing to do and the wise thing to do if rich nations want to take care of their own citizens' future welfare. The real question is how best to provide this help. The way forward, Hulme argues, is not conventional foreign aid but trade, finance and environmental policy reform. But this must happen alongside a change in international social norms so that we all recognise the collective benefits of a poverty-free world.

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