This essay examines the many problems with public and private development aid and argues that global liberalization of trade and immigration would have a greater direct effect in reducing global poverty. It also examines and rejects the view that people in rich countries have a strong moral obligation to give to the global poor. Such an obligation is in tension with an ethic that prizes personal projects. A political morality of equal respect and concern is congenial not with foreign aid, but with recognizing the agency of the global poor by lifting the many obstacles they currently face to participating in the market as producers and consumers.

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外国援助与自由

本文探讨了公共和私人发展援助的许多问题，并认为全球贸易和移民自由化将对减少全球贫困产生更大的直接影响。它还审视并驳斥了这样一种观点，即富裕国家的人民负有向全球穷人提供援助的强烈道德义务。这样的义务与珍视个人项目的道德规范存在冲突。平等尊重和关心的政治道德不适合外国援助，但适合承认全球穷人的作用，消除他们目前作为生产者和消费者参与市场所面临的许多障碍。