subscribe or login to access all content.
This book analyzes how human agency—the capacity for free choice and action—relates to poverty and human rights, respectively, as well as how agency links poverty to human rights. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 considers the diverse meanings of poverty from the standpoint of the poor and the relatively well-off. Part 2 examines morally appropriate responses to poverty on the part of persons and institutions that are better off. Part 3 identifies economic development strategies that secure the agency of the beneficiaries. Part 4 addresses the constraints poverty imposes on agency in the ... More
Keywords: poverty, social and economic human rights, global justice, economic development, empowerment, agency, migration, gender, trafficking in persons, biomedical research
Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199975877 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2014 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199975877.001.0001 |
subscribe or login to access all content.