What do the affluent owe the global poor, an introduction

Abstract

This paper provides an introduction to the special issue on Christian Barry and Gerhard Øverland’s book ‘Responding to Global Poverty’. The issue includes eight critical essays, a precis of the book and a response to critics by Barry.

Keywords

• Poverty
• global justice
• assitance-based responsibility
• contribution-based responsibility
• Doing/Allowing/Enabling harm