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...

This study contributes to the literature that analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country's human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights infringements or improvements in reaction to economic shocks caused by...

Ein kurzer Name sorgt für eine anhaltende Debatte: TTIP [tiːtɪp]. Seit Beginn der Verhandlungen im Sommer 2013 trägt die mediale Berichterstattung über die geplante "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership" zwischen der EU und den USA zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit der...

A short name is causing a lasting debate: TTIP [ti:t]. Ever since the beginning of the negotiations in the summer of 2013, media coverage of the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the US has contributed to a critical debate on the topic. In doing so,...

The Federal Reserve is a hugely powerful institution whose policies ramify with enormous effect throughout the economy. In the wake of the Great Recession, monetary policy focused on quantitative easing. Now, there is talk of normalizing monetary policy and interest rates. That conversation is...