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Research indicates that health sectors in both poor and rich nations are vulnerable to abuse and corruption. This paper … discusses the character and scope of health sector abuse and corruption. It suggests that human rights law can play an important …
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International and the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative. In terms specifically of human rights …In the long battle against corruption, the last 20 years or so has yielded a number of international legal and … institutional initiatives -- most notably, the OECD Bribery Convention and the UN Convention Against Corruption; regional anti-corruption …
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It is a fact that states with a high corruption rate (or a high corruption perception) are at the same time those with … corruption and deficient human rights protection. This is in practical terms relevant, because the extant international norms … against corruption have so far yielded only modest success; their implementation could be improved with the help of human …
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The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
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Despite 20 years of attempts to introduce human rights concerns into formal World Bank policy, and increasing … recognition of the importance that human rights play in the its work, the World Bank has yet to adopt a comprehensive safeguard … been given for this reluctance: the legal prohibition on political interference in the World Bank's Articles of Agreement …
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Cash transfer programmes (CTPs) have been identified as effective tools for poverty eradication due to their capacity to reduce economic inequalities and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet these programmes have seldom been discussed or analysed from a human rights...
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In their hypothesis published in IJHPM, Lisa Forman and colleagues examined the prominence of the right to health and sexual and reproductive health rights (as well as related language) in four of the key reports that fed into the process of negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
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