Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...

A decisive change now seems to be occurring in the development practices of the major OECD donor countries. Their own economic objectives are being moved distinctly closer to centre stage. Changes in the instruments of development policy are reputed to generate direct benefits for their own...

This working paper provides an analysis of the efforts by the European Union to support democracy building in developing countries. It focuses on the specific question of the legal obligations of, and limits for, the European Union in seeking to further democracy through its policies directed at...

Introduction / Damien Kingsbury -- Reconceptualising development : the painful job of thinking / Andrew Hewett and Chris Roche -- The g7+ group of fragile states : towards improved international engagement / Simon Fenby -- After the washington consensus / John McKay -- Civil war and the limits...