The world's most privileged can not claim to be free of any responsibility for the deprivation suffered by the poorer of the poor countries. Such deprivation is the result of a common institutional framework, so it ought to be seen as injustice. Therefore, the erradication of radical deprivation depends upon a reform of our global institutions (chiefly the economic ones). Arguments are presented on behalf of one of the current proposals: the introduction of a global dividend to be applied to the use of natural resources and to pollution-led activities. The revenue can then be used to the emancipation of the global poor.