Showing 1 - 10 of 3,085
The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984522
systems can achieve rapid economic growth. The coexistence of poverty and lack of freedom in most developing countries should … not constitute a `cruel choice' between economic development and political democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777877
The human right to freedom of religion (HRFR) at the international level is a deeply contested concept and is … Declaration of Rights. The question that emerges from this simple starting point is: what is the place of freedom of religion in a … goes to the very core of disagreement about the nature of the human rights to freedom of religion. Lacking agreement as to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857545
This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151107
discrimination measures the absence of the human right of religious freedom which includes limits on religious practices such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654055
The two concepts — human rights and capabilities — go well with each other, so long as we do not try to subsume either concept entirely within the territory of the other. There are many human rights that can be seen as rights to particular capabilities. However, human rights to important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219156
regarding the end of life; hence the problematic relation between euthanasia and the freedoms and rights provided by democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838531
various implications of the links and linkages among human rights, freedom and development to develop a theoretical framework … seen as entitled, as citizens, to a minimum income. We extend it to the comprehensive conception of development as freedom …, a la AK Sen, approaching poverty in terms of right to freedom. We argue that political freedom has substantial linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537317
located at the eastern border of the European Union, we consider Romania as part of the European area of freedom, security and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621891
Human rights are powers or facilities granted or recognized as inherent to individuals and human groups, so they can claim from other individuals or groups, and at the extreme from public authorities (local, regional, national or international), specific actions and services necessary to a life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784313