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The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

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In this anthology Deen Chatterjee brings together the foremost intellectuals in the field of political philosophy to explore how the role of citizenship and nationality is and/or ought to shape the responsibilities of the affluent to the global poor. In his illuminating introduction Chatterjee introduces the question of whether and how intensified global social and economic arrangements contribute to perpetuating prevailing economic inequities and how they might be shifted toward more just outcomes through individual and collective action. The contributors advance robust theories that extend the bounds of morality and the obligations of the affluent to the global poor (as is most notably articulated by Peter Singer in the opening chapter) and on the other end, that limit stringent moral boundaries to fellow citizens but leave room for acts of beneficence toward the global poor.
In a world where tens of thousands of people die per day due to poverty the questions raised and answers offered to poverty alleviation in Chatterjee's cutting-edge anthology cannot and should not be ignored.