Despite 20 years of attempts to introduce human rights concerns into formal World Bank policy, and increasing recognition of the importance that human rights play in the its work, the World Bank has yet to adopt a comprehensive safeguard policy dealing with the relationship between its...

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...

A discourse on human rights, is built on including such rights as part of a broader, universal framework (accommodating for moral, ethical claims) that go beyond any constitutionally derived claims and rights or any given set of legitimate laws that are defined by the sovereign of a country. In...

Cash transfer programmes (CTPs) have been identified as effective tools for poverty eradication due to their capacity to reduce economic inequalities and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet these programmes have seldom been discussed or analysed from a human rights...