World Poverty: Explanations, Responsibilities, Reforms (Wednesday)
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Dr. Thomas Pogge, Yale University
7:30PM-9:00PM TELUS Centre 150
While global average income has grown at an impressive rate, the share of the poorest half has sunk below three percent of global household income and the number of chronically undernourished has broken above the one-billion mark for the first time in human history. Severe poverty persists in many poorer countries, causing about one third of all human deaths (some 18 million annually) and blighting billions of lives with hunger and disease. What role do global institutional arrangements, such as the rules of the WTO Treaty, play in the persistence of severe poverty? How do causal insights into why severe poverty persists affect the responsibility of citizens in affluent countries? What are we doing – and what can and ought we do – toward eradicating severe poverty?