Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster progress against absolute poverty is possible through reductions in national and global inequalities that produce economic growth for poor countries and households, this book suggests that diverse moral views imply that international agencies as well as the citizens, corporations and governments of affluent countries bear a moral responsibility to reduce absolute poverty. mehr...

"Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America"
editiert von Stephan Klasen und Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann ist nun bei MIT Press verfügbar. Das Buch ist Teil der CESifo Seminar Series. mehr...

Stephan Klasen ist Koodinator des Courant Forschungszentrums Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses, das Bestandteil des Antrages der Universität in Förderlinie 3 der Exzellenzinitiative ist. Folgen Sie dem Link für weitere Informationen.
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