This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over the 2004-2020 period, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect on CDS...

The aim of this seminal paper is the empirical analysis of geopolitical risk, economic policy uncertainty, financial stress, and infectious diseases' impact on financial institutions' stability at the country level. The quantitative research approach followed by regression analysis is employed...

Introduction / Aoife Nolan -- Alternatives to austerity : a human rights framework for economic recovery / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona -- Late-neoliberalism : the financialisation of homeownership and the housing rights of the poor / Raquel Rolnik & Lidia Rabinovich -- The role of global...

Insisting on defining a minimum core content as a prerequisite for the justiciability of social rights is an updated aspiration, which risks the very enforceability of these rights amidst global economic crisis, at the very hour when they are needed the most. Proportionality not only creates the...

This paper seeks to address and develop the conceptual framework for dealing with socio-economic rights in times of economic crisis. Part I explores a peculiar but important conceptual feature of socio-economic rights, namely, the fact that they generally only give rise to positive obligations...

In the present report, the United Nations Independent Expert sets out the parameters of a human rights-based approach to recovery from the global economic and financial crises, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and marginalized groups. The report urges States to see recovery from...