Global Justice Program

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    Academics Stand Against Poverty: mobilizing the resources and capabilities of academics to accelerate the end of poverty.

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    FemPov: In search of a just and gender-sensitive measure of poverty.

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    The Health Impact Fund: promoting pharmaceutical and access to medicines, across all income levels.

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    Respect for human rights demands greater financial transparency.

Welcome

 

Led by Professor Thomas Pogge, the Global Justice Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group that works on the assessment and reform of global institutional arrangements. For more information about the Program, people working in and affiliated with the Program, and the Projects that our members and affiliates are engaged in, use the above links.

Annual Global Justice conference 2017 update:

Our Annual Global Justice conference, Onslaughts on the Poor: Corruption, Emissions, Violence took place October 27-29, 2017 at Yale. This public event was jointly organized by the Global Justice Program, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) and Global Financial Integrity (GFI). It focused on tax justice and illicit financial flows, climate justice, and other global-justice issues. Below are video links to some of the presentations, filmed and processed by GJP visiting scholar Xiaoyan Ma. Please see below for video links.

 
 
 
 
Fifth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize 2018

This year, Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty will be awarding the fifth annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays on assessing the human impact of illicit financial flows out of Africa. Entered essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a

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Fifth International Conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development; 6-7 December 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The Global Justice Program will once again participate in, and support, this annual conference. If you are interested in participating, you can find more information and can register for the conference at https://povertyconferences.com/.

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Seminar Conversation with David Cay Johnston

In his 9 October 2017 visit to the Yale seminar on Justice, Taxes and Global Financial Integrity, David Cay Johnston discusses a wide range of relevant issues related to the tasks of achieving fairness in US corporate taxation and of protecting democratic decision making from undue corporate

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