1st Edition
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights The Role of Multilateral Organisations
1. Introduction 2. International Organisations and the Challenge of Global Poverty 3. Ethics, Human Rights and Global Justice 4. UNDP: The Human Development Paradigm 5. The World Bank: The Internal Dynamics of a Complex Organisation 6. UNESCO: 'Poverty as a Violation of Human Rights' 7. The Inter-American Development Bank: 'Social Capital, Ethics and Development' 8. Conclusion
Biography
Desmond McNeill, Asunción Lera StClair
"This is an important book, one of the first comparative studies of the ethics in use within the most significant development organizations. Essential reading for students of global ethics as well as students of development." - Craig Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College and author of The UN Development Programme: A Better Way? (2006).
"In their official communications, our international agencies speak often and grandly of global justice, human rights, and the eradication of poverty. Yet, as many have noted, these commitments are hardly apparent in their practical work. In this controversial and groundbreaking book, McNeill and St. Clair seek to explain why this is so, based on a close look inside four international agencies."- Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA
"The strengths of this very thoughtful, readable, and well-researched book are various... This is a highly competent multidisciplinary consideration of how ethics are precluded from taking hold within the institutional order, enriched by the care with which the authors approach the study of their subject." - Margot Salomon, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development’, 13:2, 319-321 (2012)
