Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

by Hulme, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

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 D 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (65 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745686097, 0745686095
oclc:ocn958566430
LC Classification:HC60
Dewey Decimal:172.4

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; 1 Why Worry About the Distant Poor?; Why things have to change; Helping the poor: a scorecard; Doing the right thing -- for the wrong reasons; Who are the poor?; The state of humanity: glass half full and glass half empty; Goodbye 'aid industry' & hello 'global partnership for development'; Notes; 2 The Limits of Foreign Aid; Aid: quantity or quality?; Does aid work?; New kids on the block: China, the BRICs & Bill & Melinda; It's the politics, stupid; From aid projects to the big picture; Notes; 3 What Can Be Done?; The elusive quest for growth 1.

Finance: does telling Mali to behave like Denmark work?Trade policy: from free trade to fair trade; Migration: 'the most powerful tool for reducing global poverty'; The big picture; Notes; 4 Climate Change and Inequality; Climate change: this changes everything; Apocalypse soon?; Inequality -- the rich keep getting richer; Escaping dystopia; Notes; 5 From Broken Promises to Global Partnership; What needs to be done?; Making change happen; Moving faster towards 'one world'; Notes; Further Reading; End User License Agreement.

Subjects

developed countries Developed countries -- Foreign economic… developing countries Developing countries -- Foreign economi… Economic assistance -- Moral and ethica… Economic assistance -- Moral and ethica… Economic development -- Moral and ethic… Economic development -- Moral and ethic… International economic relations