%0 Journal Article
%T Are ¡®the affluent¡¯ responsible for global poverty?
%A Holly Lawford-Smith
%J Ethics & Global Politics
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2019.1565611
%X ABSTRACT According to Christian Barry & Gerhard £¿verland (2016), there are multiple ways ¡°the affluent¡± might be morally responsible for the situation the global poor are in, including having failed to assist them on a single occasion or on multiple occasions; by enabling harm to them; by ¡®giving rise to cost¡¯ for them; by making it costly for the poor to escape their own suffering; by exploiting them; by overdetermining harm to them. But what exactly is this group, ¡°the affluent¡±, who Barry and £¿verland present as being capable of doing all these things? In this paper I present three possible conceptions of ¡®the affluent¡¯, and argue that they all create problems for the conclusions the authors want to reach
%U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16544951.2019.1565611