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...

The most recent addition to the development cooperation toolbox is results-based aid (RBA), a development cooperation modality that disburses grants or loans in response to the achievement of pre-defined results. There are ongoing experiments in the use of RBA, as well as ongoing research...

Author discusses the various problems identified in international development aid and focuses on the distinction between government aid and the role played by the private sector. Gestsson claims, Globalization empowers multilateral organizations and, in turn, forces individual nations to...