Human rights and development : towards mutual reinforcement /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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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.