PHILOS 2Q03 Chapter Pogge: Pogge - Globalization
1 Apr 2018
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Pogge: globalization: human rights violation as a relational predicate and the duty to facilitate. The concept of human rights violation is a relational base involving specific responsibilities of particular persons. Table on the segments of the human population during the globalization period (p 22) Table shows the riches gaining an 8% increase in income while the poor decrease in their income by about 33% With the losses most severe in the poorest quarter, there has been dramatic polarization between the rich and the poor. Empirical theorists provide a line of defense of the status quo by argue that the causes of persistent poverty are domestic to the societies in which poverty exists: this is not the case. The polarization of poverty is driven by 2 main factors: (1) good progress in well- organized western countries and (2) mixed progress in other countries.
