The Ethics Of Trade And Aid

Author : Christopher D. Wraight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441124418

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The Ethics of Trade and Aid by Christopher D. Wraight Pdf

International development is now more topical than ever. Billions of dollars have been given in grants or spent on the infrastructure of the development industry. The global aid and trade industry is gigantic and high-profile. It is also hugely controversial. Trade deals are accused of being 'unfair'. Aid agencies are suspected of wasting funds, or engaging with corrupt regimes, or encouraging dependency. Despite the vast amounts of political capital spent on international development, it remains unclear what works and what doesn't. Global inequality remains stark. Economic analysis can help resolve some of these issues. But some of the questions raised are of a more fundamental nature. They are issues of fairness, equity, right and wrong. The Ethics of Trade and Aid demonstrates how political philosophy provides us with insights often passed over in modern development jargon. Christopher Wraight scrutinises the trade and aid industry through the lens of philosophy and ultimately shows that a compassionate, rational and humane engagement with the global economy does hold the promise of a better, more equal life.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521414685

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The Ethics of Aid and Trade by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

This book 1991 about the principles of the US agricultural policy and foreign aid focuses on protectionist challenges to foreign aid and development assistance programmes.

Author : Hans Wolfgang Singer,Albert Lauterbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Economic assistance
ISBN : IND:30000027152564

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The Concept of Development and the Ethics of Aid by Hans Wolfgang Singer,Albert Lauterbach Pdf

Author : Oli Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136551192

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Trade, Aid and Security by Oli Brown Pdf

'A compelling contribution to our evolving understanding of the links between trade, aid and security and what the international community needs to do to ensure peace and development in the world.' Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme 'For far too long the international community ahs stood by while countries around the world descend into conflict and anarchy. We need to understand how we can engage more effectively with fragile and failing states. Trade, Aid and Security is an important step in this direction.' Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the UN General Secretary in Sudan and Former Minister of Development and the Environment, The Netherlands. 'As we begin to contemplate what the post-Iraq world will look like it is vital that we reflect on the limits of the utility of hard power and the importance that development can play in avoiding failed states before they fail, preventing conflicts and more successfully re-building states. This timely book makes a most important contribution to that process.' Lord Paddy Ashdown, UN High Representative for Boznia and Herzegovina, 2002 2006 Leader of UK Liberal Democrat Party, 1988 1999 'As UN Special Representative to the Great Lakes Region of Africa I have seen the devastating impact of the trade in conflict resources with my own eyes. Amongst much else, this book shows how different trade and aid politics can tackle the trade in conflict resources and make a real contribution to secure societies. It is essential reading.' Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Central and East Africa. Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur. All resonate loudly on the international stage, exposing and illustrating the intractable links between global security, control over naturals resources be it oil, water, timber or 'conflict diamonds' and the manipulation of foreign aid and international trade policy. This volume, written by leading authorities from across the globe, introduces the linkages between trade, aid and security, and exposes how inappropriate or misused trade and aid policy can and do undermine security and contribute to violence and the disintegration of national states. On a practical level they demonstrate how six key areas of trade and aid policy can be used to help forge stability and security, reduce the likelihood of armed conflict, and assist economic and political recovery in our war-torn world.

Author : Daniel Rush Finn,Daniel K. Finn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106018263308

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Just Trading by Daniel Rush Finn,Daniel K. Finn Pdf

Just Trading advances the important discussion on international trade and stands as an exemplar of how ethical analysis of complex issues should be done.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300128529

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One World by Peter Singer Pdf

Written by a religious historian, this is an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well-known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 8125026584

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One World:Ethics Of Globalisation(2Nd Edn.) by Peter Singer Pdf

Peter Singer, one of the World's most influential philosophers, here considers the ethical issues surrounding globalization, showing how a global ethic rather than a nationalistic approach can provider illuminating answers to important problems. In a new preface, he discusses how the recent Iraq war and its aftermath have changed the prospects for the ethical approach he advocates. One World encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. Posing a bold challenge to the narrow or nationalistic views of policymakers, politicians, and leaders in the United States and elsewhere, Singer presents a detailed, practical way of looking at contemporary global issues through the prism of ethics.

Author : Solomon Benatar,Gillian Brock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139495905

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Global Health and Global Health Ethics by Solomon Benatar,Gillian Brock Pdf

What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social sciences. Topics covered range from infectious diseases, climate change and the environment to trade, foreign aid, food security and biotechnology. Each chapter identifies the ways in which we exacerbate poor global health and discusses what we should do to remedy the factors identified. Together, they contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges we face, and propose new national and global policies. Offering a wealth of empirical data and both practical and theoretical guidance, this is a key resource for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers.

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300196054

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One World Now by Peter Singer Pdf

Seamlessly integrates major development of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, "One World." One of the world's most influential philosophers here confronts both the perils and potentials inherent in globalization. every issue is considered from an ethical perspective, including climate change, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity. Singer argues powerfully that solving global problems requires transcending national differences.

Author : Ben Mepham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134803439

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Food Ethics by Ben Mepham Pdf

None of us can avoid being interested in food. Our very existence depends on the supply of safe, nutritious foods. It is then hardly surprising that food has become the focus of a wide range of ethical concerns: Is the food we buy safe? Is it produced by means which respect the welfare of animals and sustain the land? Are modern biotechnologies employed in food production immoral? This book addresses such issues by applying ethical principles to many areas of current concern. The contributors provide original and thought-provoking treatments of a number of highly topical issues - from global hunger and its ethical implications to the cultural habits affecting consumption. This interdisciplinary study will prove to be essential reading for all those concerned with food, as professionals, students or consumers.

Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226470627

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Foreign Aid by Carol Lancaster Pdf

A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why countries provide it: some claim that it is primarily a tool of diplomacy, some argue that it is largely intended to support development in poor countries, and still others point out its myriad newer uses. Carol Lancaster effectively puts this dispute to rest here by providing the most comprehensive answer yet to the question of why governments give foreign aid. She argues that because of domestic politics in aid-giving countries, it has always been—and will continue to be—used to achieve a mixture of different goals. Drawing on her expertise in both comparative politics and international relations and on her experience as a former public official, Lancaster provides five in-depth case studies—the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Denmark—that demonstrate how domestic politics and international pressures combine to shape how and why donor governments give aid. In doing so, she explores the impact on foreign aid of political institutions, interest groups, and the ways governments organize their giving. Her findings provide essential insight for scholars of international relations and comparative politics, as well as anyone involved with foreign aid or foreign policy.

Author : G. Bruce Doern,Christopher Stoney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773584983

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How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015 by G. Bruce Doern,Christopher Stoney Pdf

"Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University."

Author : James G. Carrier,Peter G. Luetchford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857453433

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Ethical Consumption by James G. Carrier,Peter G. Luetchford Pdf

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people’s ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.

Author : Scott Wisor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317574705

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The Ethics of Global Poverty by Scott Wisor Pdf

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding global poverty. It addresses important questions such as: What is poverty and how is it measured? What are the causes of poverty? Do wealthy individuals have a moral duty to reduce global poverty? Should aid go to those who are most in need, or to those who are easiest to help? Is it morally wrong to buy from sweatshops? Is it morally good to provide micro-finance? Featuring case studies throughout, this textbook is essential reading for students studying global ethics or global poverty who want an understanding of the moral issues that arise from vast inequalities of wealth and power in a highly interconnected world.

Author : David Ingram,Thomas J Derdak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429780929

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The Ethics of Development by David Ingram,Thomas J Derdak Pdf

The Ethics of Development: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding the concept of development. The book addresses important questions such as: What does development mean? Is there a human right to development? If we aim for sustainable development in an age of global climate change, should developed nations sacrifice economic growth for the sake of allowing developing countries to catch up? Should eradication of poverty or diminution of radical inequality be the principal focus of developmental policy? What are the macroeconomic theories of development? And how have they informed development policy? How does development work in practice? Featuring case studies throughout, this textbook provides a philosophical introduction to an incredibly topical issue studied by students within the fields of applied ethics, global justice, economics, politics, sociology, and public policy.