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A Tangled Web? Asking the Gender Question in the Multilateral Development Banks’ Law and Justice Policies in India
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Over the course of the last two decades, IFIs (most prominently the World Bank) have begun
acknowledging the centrality of human development as an essential element of the economic development process if the growth aimed ...
The Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Crisis and American Payday Lending: Two Studies in Vulnerability
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Microcredit, a non-profit lending approach that is often championed as a source of women’s
inclusion and empowerment, has in the past decade been followed by microfinance, a forprofit sibling of a different temperament. ...
Securing Tenure for Sustainable Livelihoods: A Case of Women Land Ownership in Anglophone Cameroon
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
The majority of women in Third World countries depend on land for their livelihood.
Security of tenure is important for them to ensure sustainable development, especially in
rural areas. In most parts of Africa, land ...
Exploitation as a Path to Development: Sweatshop Labour, Micro-Unfairness, and the Non-Worseness Claim
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Sweatshop labour is sometimes defended from critics by arguments that stress the
voluntariness of the worker’s choice, and the fact that sweatshops provide a source of
income where no other similar source exists. The ...
Development Ethics and Gender Justice. Presidential Address
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Happiness and Politics
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Over the last thirty years, happiness research in psychology, economics and philosophy has been discussing the proper meaning of happiness and its main determinants. Moreover, the idea has spread within academic and political ...
Interview with Jay Drydyk
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Adam Smith, Moral Motivation and Business Ethics
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
This paper shows how Adam Smith’s concept of moral motivation applies to business ethics and ethical consumption. Moral motivation for Smith is embedded in his moral psychology and his theory of virtue, particularly in ...
NGO Duties in Relation to Human Rights. A Closer Look at One Proposal
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2010)
This paper investigates the moral duties that human rights NGOs, such as Amnesty International, and
development NGOs, such as Oxfam, have in relation to human rights – especially in relation to the human right to a decent ...
Moral Loopholes in the Global Economic Environment: Why Well-Intentioned Organizations Act in Harmful Ways
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2011)
Thomas Pogge’s notion of moral loopholes serves to provide support for two claims: first, that the ethical code of the global economic order contains moral loopholes that allow participants in special social arrangements ...