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    Globalization, Poverty, and International Development
    Globalization, Poverty, and International Development
    Globalization, Poverty, and International Development
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    Globalization, Poverty, and International Development

    By Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach

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    One subject that never fails to spark debate is globalization. The phrase is used in every possible context, and yet its origins, nature and implications - especially for developing countries - are often misunderstood. In this monograph, Lord Brian Griffiths examines the theory and practice of globalization, and underlines its positive influences on wealth-creation and its success in raising millions out of poverty. Griffiths warns, however, that the benefits of globalization are predicated on the culture that it reflects, and urges Christians to work to ensure that globalization reflects the principles of Christian anthropology, especially as articulated in John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, rather than narrowly secularist alternatives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPovertyCure
    Release dateJul 14, 2012
    ISBN9781938948060
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      Globalization, Poverty, and International Development - Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach

      Globalization, Poverty, and International Development: Insights from Centesimus Annus

      Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach

      With Responses from Professor Humberto Belli and Archbishop Silvano M.Tomasi

      Edited by Samuel Gregg

      PovertyCure Series

      Copyright © 2012 by PovertyCure

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Foreword

      I. Centesimus Annus, Globalization and International Development

      Lord Brian Griffiths

      II. Globalization: Observations from Latin America

      Professor Humberto Belli

      III. Globalization, Poverty, and the United Nations Systems

      Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi

      About the Authors

      PREFACE

      The PovertyCure series is a collection of monographs and other short books focused on economic development, poverty alleviation, and entrepreneurial solutions to poverty. The plan for the series is to include a mix of new books, reissued monographs, and reprints of older works from seminal thinkers in economic development. We are grateful to the Acton Institute for permission to reprint several monographs within this series.

      The purpose of the PovertyCure series is to provide further materials for research into foundational and topical issues related to poverty and development.

      The authors—who include economists, moral philosophers, and practitioners—take seriously the integration of economics on the one hand with moral philosophy and theology on the other. Their work is rooted in the Judeo-Christian vision of the human person as made in the image of God with creative capacity.

      About PovertyCure

      PovertyCure is an international network of organizations and individuals seeking to ground our common battle against global poverty in a proper understanding of the human person and society, and to encourage solutions that foster opportunity and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that already fills the developing world.

      There is no single solution to poverty, and good people will disagree about methods, but we have joined together to rethink poverty, encourage discussion and debate, promote effective compassion, and advance entrepreneurial solutions to poverty informed by sound economics, local knowledge, the lessons of history, and reflections from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

      Christ calls us to solidarity with the poor, but this means more than assistance. It means seeing the poor not as objects or experiments, but as partners and brothers and sisters, as fellow human beings made in the image of God with the capacity to solve problems and create new wealth for themselves and their families. At a practical level, it means inviting, and being invited into, broader circles of exchange and productivity.

      The PovertyCure initiative seeks to spread this integrated message through a seven-session curriculum, a multimedia website, a documentary, and our international network of partner organizations working in everything from microfinance to clean water, orphanages, and business investment.

      We hope you find the books in the series valuable and encourage you to visit Povertycure.org to learn more, or go to Povertycure.org/network to learn how individuals and organizations can join PovertyCure in the work of transforming charity and development.

      — Michael Matheson Miller

      PovertyCure

      * * * * *

      FOREWORD

      At the beginning of the twenty-first century, few subjects arouse more passions that the topic of globalization. This is especially true among the different Christian churches and confessions across the globe. Oddly enough, many Christians do not approach the question of globalization through a theological lens. Instead, many of the debates among Christians about the nature and effects of globalization are often pale versions of discussions already occurring among very secular-minded intellectuals and scholars, and sometimes are indistinguishable in tone and emphasis from the anti-globalization rhetoric emanating from much of the political left and political right.

      Many search in vain for distinctly Christian reflections upon globalization, especially insights that do not rely implicitly or otherwise upon concepts and paradigms often derived from the now-defunct liberation theologies of the 1970s and 1980s. Other Christians, recognizing the concrete benefits flowing from globalization, see the essential incoherence of the utilitarian arguments more-than-often employed to provide moral justification for the trends and processes associated with globalization, and ask themselves how an approach to globalization that recognizes its undoubted benefits might be integrated into orthodox Christian moral reasoning about the social order.

      On October 19, 2006, Lord Brian Griffiths sought to address these and associated matters in a lecture delivered at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. The setting of the lecture was especially appropriate, given that the vast majority of the seminarians and clergy studying at this university are citizens of developing nations. In his address, Griffiths integrated Christian theological insights with his academic training as a free-market-orientated economist as well as his practical experience as a senior policy advisor to former British Prime Minister, Lady Margaret Thatcher, and his work as vice chairman of one of the world’s largest private equity firms, Goldman Sachs International. Few Christians are as well equipped to explore the subject of globalization. Griffiths’ lecture was one of several delivered by a range of speakers at a series of conferences organized by the Acton Institute, thanks to the generous support of the John M. Templeton Foundation, to commemorate the late John Paul the Great’s 1991 social encyclical Centesimus Annus.

      This monograph contains the subsequent lecture delivered by Griffiths as well as responses from Professor Humberto Belli, President of Nicaragua’s Ave Maria College of the Americas, and Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva and to the World Trade Organization. Readers of the lecture and the responses will immediately recognize that Griffiths refuses to adopt a simplistic approach to what is, after all, a multidimensional and deeply complex subject. He calls upon Christians and Christian communities to recognize the benefits proceeding from globalization, especially for those countries seemingly mired in poverty and economic underdevelopment. There is much about globalization, he contends, that is entirely consistent with the vision of man articulated by the Christian anthropology outlined in Centesimus Annus. It is time, he notes, for Christians to recognize how many millions of people have been lifted out of poverty by their integration into the global economy.

      Griffiths also maintains, however, that there are winners and losers from globalization, and that Christians have concrete obligations to those whose dignity risks being undermined in an ever-globalizing world. These are, he states, not grounds for Christians to agitate to somehow stop globalization or to

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