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- Title
World Hunger: Putting Development Ethics to the Test.
- Authors
Goulet, Denis
- Abstract
This article focuses on the problem of hunger prevailing in the world. The vicious circle of poverty is a familiar image. As Americans now focus on resource shortages and world hunger, they must not be lulled into a new kind of assistentialist thinking about development. The danger arises of seeing world development simply as a matter of food aid to starving nations or of compensatory financing to offset inflationary price rises. hunger is merely one dramatic symptom of a deeper ill, the persistence of national and international orders which produce distorted development. Therefore, the problem is not solved by boosting food aid or by cutting births but ultimately, by creating new ground rules for access to the world's productive resources. It also describes the basis for human solidarity and tries to answer that which social forces control the transition to a new world order and what values do they promote and how can limited action meet world hunger problem. Hence, present circumstances do not allow people the luxury of ignoring world hunger; they place development ethics to the test in several ways.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORLD hunger; POVERTY; ETHICS; FOOD relief; SOLIDARITY
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 1975, Vol 45, Issue 4, p3
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.1975.tb00343.x