Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation

Helmut P. Gaisbauer is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. Recent publications include: (with Gottfried Schweiger & Clemens Sedmak) Philosophical Explorations of Justice and Taxation. Dordrecht: Springer 2015; (with Clemens Sedmak) Neglected Futures. Considering Overlooked Poverty in Europe; in: Special Issue of European Journal of Futures Research: The Future of Europe 2014, 2–8.  Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg and there the Principal Investigator of a research project “Social Justice and Child Poverty”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Recent publications include: (with Gunter Graf) The Subjective Experience of Poverty, in: Northern European Journal of Philosophy 15 (2) 2015, 148–67; (with Gunter Graf). A Philosophical Exploration of Social Justice and Child Poverty. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015.Clemens Sedmak is FD Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology, King’s College London and Associate Director of the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of Salzburg. Recent publications include: (ed. with Elisabeth Kapferer & Andreas Koch) Strengthening Intangible Infrastructures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014; Sustainability: Ethical Perspectives, in: C. Weidinger et al. (eds.): Sustainable Entrepreneurship, CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer 2014, 51–65.

• 1 Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation: Agents, Institutions and Policies; Helmut P. Gaisbauer/Gottfried Schweiger/Clemens Sedmak.- I Human Rights and Poverty Alleviation.- 2 Are we violating the human rights of the world’s poor?; Thomas Pogge.- 3 A Decent Social Minimum as a Matter of Justice; Elena Pribytkova.- 4 Children’s rights, bodily integrity and poverty alleviation; Gunter Graf and Mar Cabezas.- II Poverty Alleviation and Development.- 5 A Human Right to Financial Inclusion; Jahel Queralt Lange.- 6 Is globalizing ‘development’ ethical? A view from the Pacific; Joy Paton/Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl.- 7 Animals in International Development, Ethics, Dilemmas and Possibilities; Max Kelly.- 8 The Sustainable Development Goals: pitfalls and challenges where we now need to start making progress; Gottfried Schweiger.- III Poverty and Poverty Alleviation in the Welfare State.- 9 Relative Poverty as a Threat to Human Dignity: On the Structure Injustice of Welfare States; Christian Neuhäuser.- 10 Suffering Within, Suffering Without: Paradoxes of Poverties in Welfare States.- Helmut P. Gaisbauer/Elisabeth Kapferer.- 11 Exclusion from healthcare in Spain: The responsibility for omission of due care; Rosana Triviño,David Rodríguez-Arias and Txetxu Ausín.- IV Obligations to Poverty Alleviation.- 12 Poverty, Injustice and Obligations to take Political Action; Elizabeth Kahn.- 13 Beyond the Redistributive Paradigm: What Philosophers Can Learn From Poor-Led Politics; Monique Deveaux.- 14 Migration in a World of Citizens, Nonsensical Morality and Academia’s Role in Addressing Hidden Poverty; Tendayi Bloom.- 15 Poverty Alleviation: an Opportunity for Universities; Clemens Sedmak.