Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations

Abingdon, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415445948, 186pp
 

This book examines what place, if any, ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in international organisations, based on case studies of the World Bank, UNDP, Inter-American Development Bank, and UNESCO. The authors show how, despite the rhetoric, issues of ethics and human rights have – for varying reasons and in differing ways – been prevented from impinging on actual practice.