Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.