World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms is a 2002 book by Thomas Pogge.

In the book, Pogge explains that the poorest 44% of humankind have 1.3% of global income and their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat.

Pogge argues that shifting 1 or 2% of the wealthy states' share toward poverty eradication is morally compelling.

Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a normative standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.

[2][3] Pogge argues that at the cost of two thirds of the US military's expenditures, wealthy states could largely eradicate poverty.