[PDF] Human Rights And Public Finance eBook

Author : Aoife Nolan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 178225174X

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This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of government that have the primary responsibility and the greatest capacity for giving effect to such rights: namely, the elected branches of government. The major actors considered in this book are politicians, public servants and civil society, with their role in realising economic and social rights the work's key focus. The book thus makes a crucial contribution to remedying the current imbalance in attention paid by economic and social rights scholars to the legislature and executive vis-a-vis the judiciary. Featuring pioneering work by leading experts in the field of human rights and public finance, this multidisciplinary collection will be of great interest to academics, practitioners, public servants and students working in the areas of law, human rights, economics, development and political science.

Author : David Kinley (Lecturer in law)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190691123

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Over the course of modern history, finance, the fuel of capitalism, has had both positive and negative impacts on humanity. Necessary Evil is a penetrating investigation of how our economic system affects human rights progress, this will be an essential read for anyone interested in how to make the global capitalist system more responsible and progressive.

Author : Rana S. Gautam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030036707

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From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries. This book offers a human rights perspective on financial crises vis-à-vis low-income and least developed countries. It systematically analyzes government’s commitment to women’s economic rights and basic human rights during systemic banking crises. The book combines a wealth of data with rich theoretical arguments that weave together distinct but related bodies of literature from international development, human rights, and political economy.

Author : Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1782253947

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Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights. They also highlight the urgent need for more systematic and robust legal and economic thinking about sovereign finance and human rights. This edited collection aims to contribute to filling this gap by introducing novel legal theories and analyses of the links between sovereign debt and human rights from a variety of perspectives. These chapters include studies of financial complicity, UN sanctions, ethics, transitional justice, criminal law, insolvency proceedings, millennium development goals, global financial architecture, corporations, extraterritoriality, state of necessity, sovereign wealth and hedge funds, project financing, state responsibility, international financial institutions, the right to development, UN initiatives, litigation, as well as case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America. These chapters are then theorised by the editors in an introductory chapter. In July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council finally issued its own guidelines on foreign debt and human rights, yet much remains to be done to promote better understanding of the legal and economic implications of the interface between finance and human rights. This book will contribute to that understanding as well as help practitioners in their everyday work. The authors include world-renowned lawyers and economists, experienced practitioners and officials from international organisations.

Author : Damilola S. Olawuyi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110710551X

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Outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance, a framework for mainstreaming human rights into carbon project implementation.

Author : Gillian MacNaughton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316518698

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This interdisciplinary volume examines the potential of human rights to challenge economic inequalities and their adverse impacts on human wellbeing.

Author : Radhika Balakrishnan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848138768

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Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate: progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy. Focussing on in-depth comparative case studies of the USA and Mexico and looking at issues such as public expenditure, taxation and international trade, the book shows that heterodox economic analysis benefits greatly from a deeper understanding of a human rights framework. This is something progressive economists have often been skeptical of, regarding it as too deeply entrenched in 'Western' norms, discourses and agendas. Such a categorical rejection is unwarranted. Instead, human rights norms can provide an invaluable ethical and accountability framework, challenging a narrow focus on efficiency and growth. A vital book for anyone interested in human rights and harnessing economics to create a better world.

Author : Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529237289

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EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's human rights. Through contributions from leading voices in academia, civil society, international organizations and national governments, it shows how debt-related economic policies are widening gender inequalities and argues for a systematic feminist approach to debt issues. Offering a new perspective on the global debt crisis, this is an invaluable resource for readers who seek to understand the complex relationship between economics and gender.

Author : Rory O'Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136026320

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Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the international law obligations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in relation to budgetary processes. The book outlines international experiences and comparative practice in relation to economic and social rights budget analysis and budgeting. The book sets out an ICESCR-based methodology for analysing budget and resource allocations and focuses on the legal obligation imposed on state parties by article 2(1) of ICESCR to progressively realise economic and social rights to 'the maximum of available resources'. Taking Northern Ireland as a key case study, the book demonstrates and promotes the use of a ‘rights-based’ approach in budgetary decision-making. The book will be relevant to a global audience currently considering how to engage in the budget process from a human rights perspective. It will be of interest to students and researchers of international human rights law and public law, as well as economic and social rights advocacy and lobbying groups.

Author : International Fiscal Association Staff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1988-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789065443847

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Taxation and Human Rights