Table of Contents:
  • 1 The challenges of ensuring the mutuality of human rights and development endeavours / Philip Alston and Mary Robinson
  • 2 Some reflections on human rights and development / James D. Wolfensohn
  • 3 What rights can add to good development practice / Mary Robinson
  • Part A. The economics of social rights
  • 4 Democracy and the right to food / Jean Drèze
  • 5 Social rights and economics: claims to health care and education in developing countries / Varun Gauri
  • Part B. Land rights and women's empowerment
  • 6 The properties of gender equality / Kerry Rittich
  • 7 The development impact of gender equality in land rights / Karen O. Mason and Helene M. Carlsson
  • 8 Women's property rights violations in Kenya / Janet Walsh
  • Part C. Child labour and access to education
  • 9 Child labor, education, and children's rights / Gordon Betcherman [and others]
  • 10 Child labour, education, and the principle of non-discrimination / Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Friedrich Huebler, and Edilberto Loaiza
  • 11 Human rights and public goods : education as a fundamental right in India / Philip Alston and Nehal Bhuta
  • Part D. Reform of legal and judicial systems
  • 12 The impact of human rights principles on justice reform in the Inter-American Development Bank / Christina Biebesheimer
  • 13 Less law and reform, more politics and enforcement: a civil society approach to integrating rights and development / Stephen Golub
  • Part E. The role of the private sector in promoting human rights
  • 14 Putting human rights principles into development practice through finance: the experience of the International Finance Corporation / Peter Woicke
  • 15 Human rights and governance: the empirical challenge / Daniel Kaufmann
  • 16 Transnational corporations as instruments of human development / Olivier de Schutter
  • Part F. Building human rights into development planning processes: the PRSP exercise
  • 17 Poverty reduction strategy papers within the human rights perspective / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang
  • 18 Human rights and poverty reduction strategies: moving towards convergence? / Gobind Nankani, John Page, and Lindsay Judge
  • 19 Human rights, poverty reduction strategies, and the role of the International Monetary Fund / Mark W. Plant
  • Part G. The World Bank and human rights
  • 20 The legal aspects of the World Bank's work on human rights: some preliminary thoughts / Roberto Dañino.