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Does foreign aid exacerbate human rights violations by recipient governments? A growing body of literature has cast an increasingly skeptical eye on development assistance ヨ at best, the hundreds of billions of dollars of overseas development assistance has done little to alleviate poverty in...
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It is a fact that states with a high corruption rate (or a high corruption perception) are at the same time those with … corruption and deficient human rights protection. This is in practical terms relevant, because the extant international norms … against corruption have so far yielded only modest success; their implementation could be improved with the help of human …
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Research indicates that health sectors in both poor and rich nations are vulnerable to abuse and corruption. This paper … discusses the character and scope of health sector abuse and corruption. It suggests that human rights law can play an important …
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International and the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative. In terms specifically of human rights …In the long battle against corruption, the last 20 years or so has yielded a number of international legal and … institutional initiatives -- most notably, the OECD Bribery Convention and the UN Convention Against Corruption; regional anti-corruption …
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The author looks at the obligations of international assistance and cooperation assumed by 159 states parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) with the aim of determining whether they can be used as a tool to reinforce the commitments assumed under...
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The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
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