Should rich nations help the poor?

by Hulme, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Should rich nations help the poor? / David Hulme.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 139 pages : : illustration ; : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745686059, 0745686052, 9780745686066, 0745686060
oclc:ocn936255883
LC Classification:HC60
Dewey Decimal:338.9109172/4

Subjects

Armut Aussenhandel 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… Entwicklungspolitik International economic relations