Abstract

Global Poverty and the Politics of Redistribution: An Institutional Approach

Santosh Kumar

Volume: 12 Issue: 1 2022

Abstract:

The politics and ethics of redistribution has been the primary issue of concern in the contemporary political theory, especially in the cosmopolitan traditions. Liberal cosmopolitans consider it one of the necessary measures/methods to bring in global equality and addressing some specific issue of global moral concerns like global poverty, climate change etc. But within cosmopolitan traditions there is no consensus about the framework of distribution or redistribution and another issue of debate is around the plausibility of the framework or model. The proposed paper is a humble attempt to explore the possibilities of an institutional design to alleviate global poverty through redistribution?

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i01.035

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