The ethics of poverty dictate that first we do no harm
There are number of facts that feed into poverty, and why it is so difficult to get out of
09 June 2020 - 18:46
I recently contributed a chapter to a global textbook on the ethics of poverty. Initially I couldn’t get my head around how ethics and poverty are connected. Until I started researching.
The world had been winning the war on poverty until the coronavirus hit. From affecting more than a third of humanity in 1990, the worldwide poverty level fell to 10% in 2015, and was down to 8.6% last year. Of course, those numbers mean nothing anymore...
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