Poverty - links

What the poverty figures show

• A website on the causes of poverty

• A website on US and foreign aid levels

• The World Bank's website

• Oxfam's website

• Website of the U.S. Agency for International Development

• An overview report on US foreign aid and policy

• An official site with an overview of American foreign aid policy

• Wikipedia entry on poverty

• Center for Global Development's website

• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on consequentialism, an ethical view associated with Peter Singer

• A classic of utilitarianism, John Stewart Mill's On Utilitarianism

• A book John mentioned, Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die

• Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen's book Development as Freedom

• Another book on world poverty similar to Sen's, World Poverty and Human Rights, Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms

More about Peter Singer

• A webpage about Peter Singer on utilitarian.net

• The Wikipedia entry on Peter Singer

Books by Peter Singer

• One World

• Writings on an Ethical Life

• Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest