@booklet {63691,
	title = {How Does the Global Order Harm the Poor?},
	year = {2005},
	note = {},
	month = {Sep 6, 2005},
	abstract = {More than 20\% of the world population lives in abject poverty, on less than $1 day, and about 50\% on less than $2. One quarter is illiterate. The 2.5 billion people in low{\textendash}income countries have an infant mortality rate of over 100 for every 1000 live births, compared to six in high{\textendash}income countries. According to widely circulating statistics, the gap between rich and poor has increased dramatically: in 1820, the gap in average per capita incomes was 3:1, in 1960 60:1, and in 1997 74:1. The contrast between lavishly rich Americans whose urgent questions of the day are about where to go for dinner and when to meet one?s personal trainer, and cotton farmers in Mali with barely enough to survive could hardly be starker, and becomes depressing if we recall that US cotton subsidies exacerbate their plight. Such facts are especially alarming since our world is politically and economically interconnected, a continuous global society based on local territorial sovereignty whosefate is shaped not merely by states, but also by transnational and transgovernmental networks, structures aptly called the global political and economic order. Since there is such an order, the radically unequal distribution of advantage may not be an aggregative phenomenon arising from many disconnected causes. Instead, we must ask whether there is a sense in which that order itself actually harms the least{\textendash}advantaged, the global poor, in a way that implies an injustice. This essay aims to contribute to that task.},
	author = {Risse, Mathias}
}
