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    It is not the case that Cosmopolitanism can adequately address the entitlements and agency of those living in poverty

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    • 1.Cosmopolitan frameworks are structurally dependent on liberal individualism, which misrepresents the communal basis of subsistence economies and poor peoples' actual moral self-understanding.
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    • 2.When cosmopolitan theorists advocate for poor-led movements, they impose externally derived rights-language that can displace indigenous forms of political claim-making, as Polanyi's analysis of market society suggests.
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan institutional proposals, such as Pogge's Global Resources Dividend, operate within and thereby legitimate the same neoliberal order that structurally produces poverty, as critics like Benhabib and Milanovic have argued.
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    • 2.Theorizing entitlements from within existing global economic arrangements forecloses the more radical restructuring that effective poverty abolition would require.
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    • 1.Cosmopolitan theorists have examined the entitlements of those living in poverty
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    • 2.Cosmopolitan theorists have argued in favor of poor-led social movements
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    • 3.Alternative forms of cosmopolitanism 'from below' have been developed
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