"Many infrastructure projects around the world are funded through the project finance method, which combines private financing with public sector backing from multilateral finance institutions such as the World Bank. This examination of the theoretical and practical implications of such funding...

"The Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), a human rights research and advocacy organization based in Bogota, Colombia, was the home base of the project and provided much of the intellectual and organizational impetus for the book. I am particularly grateful to Dejusticia members who...

1. The radical potential of human rights -- 2. The human rights framework and economic policy -- 3. What does inequality have to do with human rights? -- 4. A human rights approach to government spending and taxation -- 5. Mobilizing resources to realize rights : debt, aid, and monetary policy...