Birth of the subject: the ethics of monitoring development programmes

George, Siby K.

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“…But critics are also quick to point out that such a definition leaves unaddressed the connection of human rights to economic development, which is an Bimportant domain of contemporary social action and aspiration.Ê thicists now point to the heterogeneous nature of development and demand a new approach that is anchored in a robust human rights framework. Development is understood as Ba matter of promoting the capabilities of people in order to enhance their freedom and choice rather than merely improving their income (George 2008, p.22).^This new perspective in development ethics, as George (2008) states, also means that economics is understood as Ba humanistic inquiry rather than the dismal science of wealth (p.30).^What links the donor to the recipient of donor funds is the homogeneity of humanness and the need to empower one another and society.…”

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Development ethics: talking to recipients of development funds about vulnerability and human dignity

Kamweri

2016

International Journal of Ethics Education

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The often deplorable stories of corruption, lack of transparency and accountability, raises concern that the ethical foundation for the global development initiative is yet to resonate with some recipients of development funds in Uganda and elsewhere. Ethicists consider the notion of social justice as the appropriate category for articulating the moral demands of promoting development in resource-poor countries. The social justice approach entails acknowledgement of the inviolable dignity and inherent value of a human person. The language of vulnerability is often used in reference to the need to provide those in less developed countries with adequate support for socio-economic development, so as to enhance individual freedoms and dignity. This endeavor draws support from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that regards the principle of human dignity as foundational for freedom, peace, and justice in the human family. However there is no clear mechanism for relaying this moral discourse to recipients of development funds in rural communities in Uganda. Too often this gap is filled in by human rights activist who are at times prone to human rights reductionism. To maintain high ethical standards a new approach necessitates the articulation of a set of UNESCO's bioethics principles that include human dignity, respect for human vulnerability and personal integrity, solidarity and cooperation, autonomy and individual responsibility. This presentation demonstrates a strategy of using workshops in rural communities to specify and analyze the substantive and procedure issues involved in the ethical principles that are relevant to socio-economic development.

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Development ethics: talking to recipients of development funds about vulnerability and human dignity

Kamweri

2016

International Journal of Ethics Education

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“…In states with at least minimal infrastructure, participatory budgeting (implemented first in Brazil, but since adopted in numerous cities around the world), the idea of 'citizen report cards,' and social protection schemes are examples of strategies that have been proposed and successfully implemented.64 In poor countries lacking basic social and economic institutions, development initiatives and poverty alleviation projects can still be devised with the goal of respecting and including the poor-for example, by encouraging the participation of communities in setting specific development targets and enlisting their assistance in the subsequent monitoring of the success of projects. 65 What distinguishes 'pro-poor' approaches to poverty reduction and development from those proposed by mainstream global justice theorists is thus their central focus on the participation and empowerment of the poor as core values and goals. Although somewhat diffuse in meaning, when applied to development practices and projects targeting poverty, a poor-centered, empowerment-based perspective essentially demands not just that development aims to reduce the misery of the poor, but that it helps to empower them.…”

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The Global Poor as Agents of Justice

Deveaux

2015

J Moral Philos

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“Agent-centered” approaches to global poverty insist that effective arguments for poverty reduction must specify the concrete duties of particular duty-bearers. This article takes up a recent, influential, version of this view, Thomas Pogge’s human rights-based argument for global economic reforms to reduce chronic deprivation. While signaling a welcome shift from the diffuse allocation of responsibilities common to much philosophical writing on poverty, I argue that Pogge’s approach too readily assigns to powerful institutions in the global North the role of devising and directing anti-poverty initiatives. In so doing, he overlooks the agency—actual and potential—of the poor themselves, as evidenced by poor-led political movements and poor-centered, participatory models of poverty reduction in development theory and practice. While agent-oriented approaches are right to focus our attention on structures that cause poverty, they ought not to assume that the powerful agents responsible for these are the only—or most appropriate—agents to lead the way to poverty reduction. Just as development organizations working in the global South have come to recognize that the participation of poor communities is critical to the success of development strategies, so should normative theorists writing about global injustice acknowledge the importance of the poor as active agents in poverty reduction efforts.

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Justice, Ethics, Development

George

2015

Heidegger and Development in the Global South

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Birth of the subject: the ethics of monitoring development programmes

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Development ethics: talking to recipients of development funds about vulnerability and human dignity

Development ethics: talking to recipients of development funds about vulnerability and human dignity

The Global Poor as Agents of Justice

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