E/CN.4/2006/43 page 21 Notes 1 Thomas Pogge has estimated that the cost of lifting all the world’s poor above the poverty line would be roughly 1 per cent of the world’s GDP, based on data from 2002. Today, with a much larger world GDP, the cost would be even less. See T. Pogge, “World Poverty and Human Rights” in Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 2005). 2 These terms are based on Amartya Sen’s description of human rights in his book, Development as Freedom (2000) and were included in my reports as independent expert on the right to development, specifically the first and second reports. 3 A. Sen, “Elements of a theory of human rights”, in Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 32, No. 4, 2004, p. 332. 4 Ibid, p. 328. 5 P. Alston, “Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of Human Rights and Development Debate Seen Through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals” in Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 27, No. 3, August 2005, p. 778. 6 Ibid, p. 777. -----