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    Challenges→A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive

    Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism shows that wealthy nations actively harm the global poor through coercive trade regimes and odious debt enforcement.

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    • 1.Trade agreements systematically advantage wealthy nations' exports while restricting poor nations' market access, directly reducing their development opportunities.
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    • 2.Odious debt burdens force developing nations to prioritize repayment over education and healthcare, perpetuating poverty cycles wealthy creditors benefit from.
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    • 3.Wealthy nations actively maintain institutional structures (IMF conditions, IP regimes) that constrain poor nations' policy autonomy and economic sovereignty.
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    • 1.Many poor nations' poverty stems from internal governance failures, corruption, and civil conflict rather than external institutional coercion by wealthy states.
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    • 2.Trade regimes often benefit developing nations through capital flows, technology transfer, and market access that autonomous policies might not achieve alone.
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    • 3.Attributing all global poverty to wealthy nations' 'harm' obscures poor nations' agency and their capacity to negotiate, resist, or reform institutional arrangements.
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