ABSTRACT

After decades of "structural adjustment," global poverty has become one of the key issues, with poverty reduction being the main objective of such programs. Other dimensions of human development, such as health, education, and social protection, are equally considered to be priorities not only within countries, but also on a global scale. The fact that globalization undermines the capacity of states in addressing injustice buttresses arguments for a global public sphere and international norms and intervention. It also legitimizes the role of multilateral institutions in matters of distributive justice, though this raises questions of domestic accountability. The improvement of global social justice has been activated by the idea of attaching conditionalities, not only to classical International financial institutions financing in exchange for economic reform, as in structural adjustment, but also to the regulation of international trade flows. The issues of global economic rights and justice require much more in-depth analyses.