What is World Poverty and Human Rights?
{{italictitle}} '''''World Poverty and Human Rights''''' is a 2002 book by [[Thomas Pogge]]. In the book, Pogge says that the poorest 46 percent of people have 1.2 percent of global income, and 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-third of all human deaths are from [[poverty]]-related causes: 18 million annually, including 12 million children under five.<ref name=pog>[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/World-Poverty-and-Human-Rights/Thomas-Pogge/e/9780745629957 World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> At the other end of the spectrum, the 15 percent of people in the [[developed countries]] have 80 percent of global income. Pogge says that shifting 1 or 2 percent of our share toward poverty eradication seems morally compelling. Yet most of the rich people believe that they have no such responsibility.<ref name=pog/><ref>[http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7l2654983m28272/fulltext.pdf?page=1 Thomas Pogge: World Poverty and Human Rights]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== <references/> [[Category:Political books]] [[Category:Poverty]] [[Category:Human rights]] [[Category:2002 books]] {{stub}}